noun
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(sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
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a follow shot
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The act of following another user's online activity.
verb
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To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
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Follow that car!
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To go or come after in a sequence.
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B follows A in the alphabet.
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To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
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Follow these instructions to the letter.
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To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
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To understand, to pay attention to.
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Do you follow me?
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To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
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I followed the incumbent throughout the election.
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To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
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If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.
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To be a logical consequence of something.
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If you don't practise proper hygiene, illness is sure to follow.
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To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
Examples of follow in a Sentence
I'll follow you back to the house.
He motioned to the others to follow and they all went down the path to the building.
He'll follow us, won't he?
If he wanted to hurt me, he could follow me in my car.
Carmen stared at him, trying to follow his runaway thought train.
I rose to follow and he tossed me a jacket.
The children, feeling sad and despondent, were about to follow him when the Wizard touched Dorothy softly on her shoulder.
Molly started to bite her lip and I thought tears would follow but Betsy grabbed her hand.
You were a fool to follow me.
They'll follow up on the girl's story even though you and I know it's bogus.
If you ever want to leave here, you will follow my instructions.
All were silent, expectant of what was to follow, for this was clearly only a prelude.
We'd then cross our fingers and see what particulars would follow.
It was a bitch to follow him.
If he tried to follow a moving automobile, he could sometimes attach himself, if the vehicle was slow or stopped, but the act was tenuous at best.
The influence of the Poles was still sufficient to secure considerable concessions to the wishes of the Federalists, since if they did not get what they wished they would leave the House, and the Slovenes, Dalmatians and Tirolese would certainly follow them.
I felt compelled to follow but I wanted to hear more.
At the end of 1889 Crispi abolished the differential duties against French imports and returned to the general Italian tariff, but France declined to follow his lead and maintained her prohibitive dues.
These vary in different plants, but in each species they follow a regular law.
On the betrayal of this conspiracy Clement made a fresh submission to the emperor, only to follow this, a year later, by the Holy League of Cognac with Francis I.
Excluding these exceptional cases, however, the variations of the diffusivity appeared to follow the variations of the seasons with considerable regularity in successive years.
The United States of America and the great colonial dependencies follow generally the English way of using the beverage.
With a serf population even this was not impossible; but as the beds of the canals were graded to no even slope, it did not follow that if water entered the head it would flow evenly on.
It's easy to identify specific crimes and follow them up.
If these equations could be assumed to hold when H is indefinitely small, it would follow that has a finite initial value, from which there would be no appreciable deviation in fields so weak that bH was negligibly small in comparison with a.
At a banquet shortly afterwards Philip vowed that he would lead a crusade against the Turks, who had seized Constantinople, and the knights of his court swore to follow his example.'
The main centre is in East and West Prussia, then follow the marsh districts on the Elbe and Weser, some parts of Westphalia, Oldenburg, Lippe, Saxony and upper Silesia, lower Bavaria and klsace-Lorraine.
In dealing with the revolt of nobles Ernest of Swabia Conrad was aided by the reluctance a-nd the of the vassals of the great lords to follow them against land.
Now that the immediate object had been attained, he wished to pass on to other projects in which they could not follow him.
The public and high schools tend rather to follow American than British methods, though less freedom is allowed to the local authorities than in most of the American states.
We constantly longed to follow up on our endeavors and make sure what Howie discovered was brought to a positive conclusion.
His reflexes were like Kris's, too fast to follow.
As among the vertebrates, materials were accumulating rapidly for the great generalizations which were to follow in the third period.
To use sections and divisions in the text as Pagnine in his translation useth, and for the verity of the Hebrew to follow the said Pagnine and Munster specially, and generally others learned in the tongues.
For the most part the rivers follow open valleys along belts of weak strata; but they frequently pass through sharp-cut notches in the na1row ridges of the stratified beltthe Delaware water-gap is one of the deepest of these notches; and in the harder rocks of the crystalline belt they have eroded steep-walled gorges, of which the finest is that of the Hudson, because of the greater height and breadth of the crystalline highlands there than at points where the other rivers cross it.
This attitude of the Catholics was caused by Pitt's encouragement of the expectation that Catholic emancipation, the commutation of tithes, and the endowment of the Catholic priesthood, would accompany or quickly follow the passing of the measure.
For a generation they had waited for his accession, and bitter was their disappointment, for it was known that his son was more inclined to follow the principles of Bismarck than those of his own father.
At the age of nineteen he returned to his father's house, and, making a rough attempt at a hermit's dress out of two kirtles of his sister's and a hood belonging to his father, he ran away to follow the religious vocation.
From Lake Ontario the St Lawrence emerges through the meshes of the Thousand Islands, where it crosses Archaean rocks, after which follow several rapids separated by quieter stretches before Montreal is reached at the head of ocean navigation.
In some cases a failure to understand his meaning led to curious results; for example, the medieval custom, not uncommon in England, of placing rows of earthenware jars under the floor of the stalls in church choirs, appears to have been an attempt to follow out suggestions raised by Vitruvius as to the advantages of placing bronze vases round the auditorium of theatres.
He does not strictly follow the system of IIayyuj.
All modifications of leaves follow the same laws of arrangement as true leaves - a fact which is of importance in a morphological point of view.
We may now follow out the more troublesome conflict, or rather series of conflicts, in which Hobbes became entangled from the time of publishing his De corpore in 1655, and which checkered all his remaining years.
Although these preparations were carried on directly under Henrys supervision, only in Saxony and Thuringia the neighboring dukes were stimulated to follow his example.
Adolph, an insignificant prince, having been obliged to reward his supporters richly, wished to follow the lines laid down by his predecessor and to secure an extensive territory for his family.
Louis could not always follow his own impulses, but whenever he could he associated himself with the latter party.
The remainder of the National Liberals only won forty-five seats in 1881, and during the next three years they were without influence on the government; and even Bennigsen, unable to follow Bismarck in his new policy, disgusted at the proposals for biennial budgets and the misuse of government influence at the elections, retired from political life.
In the new position b would tend to follow the direction of its point of support, whilst c would tend to fall in the opposite direction, and the bob of one pendulum would exercise a restraint upon the motion of the other.
The immediate successors of Akhenaton strove to follow in his footsteps, but the conservative nature of Egypt quickly asserted itself.
Adjectives follow the nouns they qualify.