What's the difference between dork and trend?

Dork


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You were well served by my distinguished stand-ins, however, and thanks go to them, too, for keeping Dork Talk alive.
  • (2) Mark Mayer, 38, from Dorking in Surrey, says he faces a similar problem in that his cerebral palsy is not always immediately obvious.
  • (3) Richard Barklie, 50, from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, Joshua Parsons, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, and William Simpson, 26, from Ashford, Surrey, were each banned from football matches for five years – the maximum period allowed.
  • (4) His memoirs are wholly uninformative about his motivations and, though called The Turbulent Years, make the Thatcher governments sound about as turbulent as a drizzly morning in Dorking.
  • (5) Were these dorks themselves "role models" as broadcasters they might learn to parse syntactically and grammatically correct sentences in comprehensibly accented English.
  • (6) He claims to have owned the second Macintosh computer bought in the UK (the first apparently went to Douglas Adams) and until last year wrote the Dork Talk technology column for the Guardian.
  • (7) Sharon Campbell Dorking, Surrey • Ann Farmer ( Letters , 15 July) seems concerned that to debate assisted dying gives the message that we don't value the lives of people with disabilities.
  • (8) 12.30pm BST Lord Baker of Dorking used his speech to remind the house of the relatively recent introduction of the concept of compassion to prosecutions against those who assist others to die.
  • (9) Friends Life employs 3,700 people in the UK, with its largest operation in Bristol, and smaller offices in Dorking.
  • (10) Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee chairs a panel that includes Melissa Benn, Lord Baker of Dorking and Cambridge academic Prof Robin Alexander.
  • (11) Now 76 and transmuted into Lord Baker of Dorking, he is smiling again as – in his office at 4 Millbank, a few yards from the houses of parliament and with ITN just across the corridor – he outlines his latest vision for English education.
  • (12) Garrett, with Danielle Molinari and Jo Dorking, meanwhile, live in social housing in Hoxton that has just been bought by a consortium part-owned by Conservative MP Richard Benyon: rents are expected to go up to market rates of £400-£600 a week.
  • (13) Then there is the mystery of Halina Żaboklicka, a Polish woman whose treasured letters were found in the pub’s old barn during a clear-out in 1995 by the then owners Jo Dorkings and Joe Stephens.
  • (14) After allowance for age, sex, social class, and severity of symptoms, subjects in the northern towns of Arbroath and Peterlee who had suffered from low back pain in the past year were three to four times as likely to have consulted their doctor about the problem as those living in the southern towns of St Austell and Dorking.

Trend


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend.
  • (n.) Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
  • (v. t.) To cleanse, as wool.
  • (n.) Clean wool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (3) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
  • (4) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (5) Depressive features in patients with CFS were similar to those of control subjects, but a trend toward suicidal behavior was noted.
  • (6) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
  • (7) PUVA did not induce any statistically significant modification of the populations studied, except for a progressively increasing trend of CD4 positive cells.
  • (8) These trends include an increase in the number of elderly who need the benefits of home care, the recognition that long-term chronic illnesses require appropriate management at home, and concern that patients have access to care at the level most appropriate to their illnesses.
  • (9) A significant effect for pirenzepine was seen for episodes greater than 5 min (t = 2.61, P = 0.023) and a trend towards significance was seen for total (upright and supine positions combined) percent time of reflux (t = 2.13, P = 0.055).
  • (10) Trends in sex specific mortality from six conditions (hip fracture, septicemia, pneumonia, cancer, heart disease, and stroke) were examined for the period 1968 to 1980 to determine if recent increases in life expectancy at advanced ages were associated with significant shifts in the pattern of cause specific mortality at those ages.
  • (11) After 4 and 24 hours of plaque accumulation, no specific trends suggesting a preferential colonization on the different substances were observed.
  • (12) The other trend involved softening from penetrant liquid absorption and a concomitant decrease in hardness.
  • (13) In addition, the trends in the three sets of data for the catalytic subunit indicate that ionic bonds are involved in binding PALA to the active site, and that non-productive binding by L-Asp is negligible under these experimental conditions.
  • (14) When all cases were considered together there was a trend towards improved graft survival with better grades of matching, but this was not statistically significant.
  • (15) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
  • (16) Among all subgroups, the odds ratios adjusted for pertinent confounders and interactions fluctuated randomly by about 0.9 and showed no consistent trend with increased alcohol consumption.
  • (17) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
  • (18) Current research strategies in the pharmacotherapy of the affective disorders are reviewed in an attempt to highlight major trends and areas of particular promise.
  • (19) A similar trend was found in patients with active duodenal ulcer.
  • (20) The study will compare, by cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, trends and processes involved in risk factor development by sex, race, age, and other sociodemographic characteristics.