different between commerce vs trend

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m.?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m.?s/, (dated) /k??m??s/

Noun

commerce (countable and uncountable, plural commerces)

1. (business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.

3. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1648, Walter Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia, or Devout Essaies

     these perillous commerces of our love

4. An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Synonyms

• trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication
• See also Thesaurus:copulation

Derived terms

• chamber of commerce
• commercial

Translations

Verb

commerce (third-person singular simple present commerces, present participle commercing, simple past and past participle commerced)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.
   • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

     Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To hold intercourse; to commune.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Walking to the Mail

     commercing with himself

   • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns

     Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.

Further reading

• commerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• commerce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French commerce, borrowed from Latin commercium (“commerce, trade”), from com- (“together”) + merx (“good, wares, merchandise”); see merchant, mercenary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.m??s/

Noun

commerce m (plural commerces)

1. commerce, trade
2. store, shop, trader

Derived terms

• commercial

See also

• négoce

Further reading

• “commerce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French commerce (“commerce”).

Noun

commerce

1. business, commerce

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve", from Old English trendan "to roll about, turn, revolve" from Proto-Germanic *trandijan? (“to revolve”). Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde "ball", Old English tryndel "circle, ring". More at trindle, trundle.

Noun

trend (plural trends)

1. An inclination in a particular direction.
2. A tendency.

3. A fad or fashion style.
4. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
5. (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
6. (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

Derived terms

• downtrend
• uptrend

Translations

Verb

trend (third-person singular simple present trends, present participle trending, simple past and past participle trended)

1. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
2. (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
   • 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals

     Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends / Her silver stream.

3. (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.

Derived terms

• betrend
• trendy

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare German trennen (“to separate”).

Noun

trend (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) Clean wool.

Verb

trend (third-person singular simple present trends, present participle trending, simple past and past participle trended)

1. To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).

References

Anagrams

• entr'd

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English trend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

trend f (plural trends, diminutive trendje n)

1. trend, tendency

Derived terms

• groeitrend
• trendbreuk
• trendgroei
• trendlijn
• trendmatig
• trendy

Hungarian

Etymology

From English trend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tr?nd]
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

trend

1. trend

Declension

References

Italian

Noun

trend m (invariable)

1. trend

   Synonym: tendenza

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English trend

Noun

trend m (definite singular trenden, indefinite plural trender, definite plural trendene)

1. a trend

Related terms

• tendens
• trendy

References

• “trend” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English trend

Noun

trend m (definite singular trenden, indefinite plural trendar, definite plural trendane)

1. a trend

Related terms

• tendens
• trendy

References

• “trend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English trend, from Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *trandijan? (“to revolve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?nt/

Noun

trend m inan

1. trend (fad)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) trendowy

Related terms

• (adjective) trendy

Further reading

• trend in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• trend in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English trend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trênd/

Noun

tr?nd m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. trend

Declension

Swedish

Noun

trend c

1. a trend

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From English trend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nd/

Noun

trend (definite accusative trendi, plural trendler)

1. trend

Declension