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Follow   /fˈɑloʊ/   Listen
Follow

verb
(past & past part. followed; pres. part. following)
1.
To travel behind, go after, come after.  "Please follow the guide through the museum"
2.
Be later in time.  Synonym: postdate.
3.
Come as a logical consequence; follow logically.  Synonym: fall out.  "The theorem falls out nicely"
4.
Travel along a certain course.  Synonym: travel along.  "Follow the trail"
5.
Act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes.  Synonyms: abide by, comply.  "You must comply or else!" , "Follow these simple rules" , "Abide by the rules"
6.
Come after in time, as a result.  Synonym: come after.
7.
Behave in accordance or in agreement with.  Synonym: conform to.  "Follow my example"
8.
Be next.
9.
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.  Synonyms: adopt, espouse.  "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
10.
To bring something about at a later time than.  "He followed his lecture with a question and answer period"
11.
Imitate in behavior; take as a model.  Synonym: take after.
12.
Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.  Synonym: trace.  "Trace the student's progress"
13.
Follow with the eyes or the mind.  Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over.  "The world is watching Sarajevo" , "She followed the men with the binoculars"
14.
Be the successor (of).  Synonyms: come after, succeed.  "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"
15.
Perform an accompaniment to.  Synonyms: accompany, play along.
16.
Keep informed.  Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up.
17.
To be the product or result.  Synonym: come.  "Understanding comes from experience"
18.
Accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of.  "She followed a guru for years"
19.
Adhere to or practice.
20.
Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function.  Synonym: be.  "She is our resident philosopher"
21.
Keep under surveillance.  Synonyms: surveil, survey.
22.
Follow in or as if in pursuit.  Synonym: pursue.  "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life"
23.
Grasp the meaning.  "When he lectures, I cannot follow"
24.
Keep to.  Synonyms: stick to, stick with.  "Stick to the diet"



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"Follow" Quotes from Famous Books



... a French translation[44]. Wherever we turn, in fact, we are met by this French barrier between Guevara and his English translators, which seems to preclude the possibility of his style having exercised the influence ascribed to it by Dr Landmann and those who follow him. ...
— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson
... Mrs. Browning's correspondence we reach the first allusion to the political crisis which had now become acute, and of which the letters that follow are full, almost to excess. On January 1 Napoleon had astounded Europe by his language to the Austrian ambassador at Paris, in which he spoke of the bad relations unfortunately subsisting between their States. On the 10th Victor Emmanuel declared that he must listen to ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... neck or fore legs of the dams, and believe that in such cases the long time it took them to find the source of nourishment arose from a defective sense of smell. Its next important instinct, which comes into play from the moment it can stand on its feet, impels it to follow after any object receding from it, and, on the other hand, to run from anything approaching it. If the dam turns round and approaches it from even a very short distance, it will start back and run from ...
— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson
... smiting-stones in either hand. Uglik was a brave man, but he was also a cautious leader. He did not care to expose his tribe to almost certain annihilation and he led a wild retreat down the valley, Samo, with his arm hanging limp, bringing up the rear. The Neanderthalers did not follow into the ...
— B. C. 30,000 • Sterner St. Paul Meek
... different staircases, Beppo and Luigi came upon Aennchen nearly at the same time. She turned a cold face on Beppo, and requested Luigi to follow her. Astonished to see him in such favour, Beppo was ready to provoke the quarrel before the kiss when she returned; but she said that she had obeyed her mistress's orders, and was obeying the duchess ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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