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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



... cast down. But as they were about to cast him in, suddenly he brake his bonds asunder, and rushing at Sir Andret, took his sword and smote him down therewith. Then, leaping down the rocks where none could follow, he escaped them. But one shot after him and wounded him full sorely with a poisoned arrow in ...
— The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights • James Knowles

... understand how he could most easily reach it, and, while she was explaining the various roads he must follow, there was a beat of hoofs outside. Wisbech rose and held out ...
— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

... who stepped so little away from his fort, that a disorder happening in the interim of parley, not only Monsieur de l'Escut and his party who were advanced with him, found themselves by much the weaker, insomuch that Alessandro Trivulcio was there slain, but he himself follow the Count, and, relying upon his honour, to secure himself from the danger of the shot within the ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... churches, this was the only cathedral dedicated to him. During these years Architecture was ever on the change, and, as was always the custom, the builders in any given case did not trouble themselves to follow the style in which a work had been begun, but went on with ...
— Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham

... wondering rather stupidly which house it could be. To reach the cathedral from the little place where we stopped just now to look across at the Grenadiere, without, it must be confessed, very vividly seeing it, you follow the quay to the right and pass out of sight of the charming coteau which, from beyond the river, faces the town—a soft agglomeration of gardens, vineyards, scattered villas, gables and turrets of slate-roofed chateaux, terraces with grey balustrades, moss-grown walls draped in ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James


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