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Meaning follow meaning

What does follow mean?
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follow Verb

— If the first thing occurs after the second, thing the first thing follows a second thing. Every year summer always follows spring. — If a first thing goes behind a second thing, the first thing follows the second. A dog that is trained well should always follow its owner.

follow

— verb to travel behind, go after, come after The ducklings followed their mother around the pond Please follow the guide through the museum — verb be later in time Tuesday always follows Monday — verb (= fall out) come as a logical consequence; follow logically It follows that your assertion is false the theorem falls out nicely — verb (= travel along) travel along a certain course follow the road follow the trail — verb (= comply, abide by) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes He complied with my instructions You must comply or else! Follow these simple rules abide by the rules — verb (= come after) come after in time, as a result A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake — verb behave in accordance or in agreement with Follow a pattern Follow my example — verb be next Mary plays best, with John and Sue following — verb (= espouse) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans She followed the feminist movement The candidate espouses Republican ideals — verb to bring something about at a later time than She followed dinner with a brandy He followed his lecture with a question and answer period — verb imitate in behavior; take as a model Teenagers follow their friends in everything — verb (= trace) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba trace the student's progress — verb (= watch, keep an eye on) follow with the eyes or the mind Keep an eye on the baby, please! The world is watching Sarajevo She followed the men with the binoculars — verb (= succeed) be the successor (of) Carter followed Ford Will Charles succeed to the throne? — verb perform an accompaniment to The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano — verb (= keep up) keep informed He kept up on his country's foreign policies — verb grasp the meaning Can you follow her argument? When he lectures, I cannot follow — verb adhere to or practice These people still follow the laws of their ancient religion — verb accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of Let's follow our great helmsman! She followed a guru for years — verb (= come) to be the product or result Melons come from a vine Understanding comes from experience — verb (= pursue) follow in or as if in pursuit The police car pursued the suspected attacker Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life — verb (= be) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function He is a herpetologist She is our resident philosopher — verb keep under surveillance The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing — verb (= stick to) keep to Stick to your principles stick to the diet

Synonyms follow synonyms

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follow English » English

pursue go after obey accompany come after chase track observe trail imitate trace succeed shadow hunt ensue watch conform attend copy comply run after comply with result emulate abide by understand tail stick to keep go with abide with walk behind travel along stalk serve hound go along escort dog conform to come undertake to take after tag along tag stick with stick spy on

Topics follow topics

What do people use follow to talk about?
Physical actions Move Accompany

Follow
States Time Relative time Before

After
Language and thought Think Learn

Study
Language and thought Think Opinion

Believe
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Interested
Social behavior Social activity

Dance
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Follow, be a disciple
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Hunt

Track an animal
Physical actions Move

Pursue
States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Next
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Card game
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt

Conjugation follow conjugation

How do you conjugate follow?

follow · verb

Examples follow examples

How do I use follow in a sentence?

Simple sentences

All that you have to do is to follow his advice.
I can't follow you.
Follow that car.
I'll follow your instructions.
Do you follow advice from others?
The police expects people to follow the law.
You'd better learn to follow the rules.
If you follow Tom's instructions, nothing can happen to you.
Mary refused to follow Tom into the shelter.
You should follow your teacher's advice.
You should follow the doctor's advice.
You should ask your father for his advice and follow it.
Just follow your heart.
I don't quite follow you.
You did well not to follow his advice.
Just because a man is rich it does not necessarily follow that he is happy.
You must follow the regulations.
Please follow the nurse's directions.
You may as well follow his advice.
You have only to follow the directions.
You may as well follow your father's advice.
We should follow his example.
We were unable to follow his logic.

Movie subtitles

Why do we follow you?
Don't follow me unless you're coming along!
It'll all make sense if you read Part 3, so follow those books from the hill with the tree!
Now, how many of the people want to have follow-up sessions?
They always say you just have to get that first baptism and the others will follow!
Joseph tried to convince all the villagers to follow him and his golden plates.
I should follow them.
As someone working in this office, do you not know whose orders you have to follow?
Until now, you had to follow me everywhere like lightning.
I intend to follow the way of the sword just as I have been.
ABGs to follow, including carboxyhaemoglobin.
So, I used your Armenian tracking device to follow Lourdes, and it worked like a dream.
Follow it up.
I'll follow up on crazy Pete's resistance to play Santa.
We Saint-Simonians, who follow the teachings of our master, the late Count of Saint-Simon, a remarkable economist and philosopher, want to build a new society based on progress.
You can't expect a Muslim to follow an infidel.
Follow me.
I'll see to it that he goes to a good school, so he can follow in his father's footsteps.
It is a human's inalienable right not to bear arms or harm another, and you should just follow your heart in these matters.
Be true. Follow your heart, 009.
If there's a way to get through this without going into battle, then that's the path we should follow.
Could they follow me to this place?
The Lawyer would like to remind you you have to follow the rules here.
Shouldn't we follow him?
No, we'll just let the tail follow him.
Prepare your pistols, get ready and follow me!
Make the decision, and we'll follow your lead.
As long as you follow this sequence, you'll be able to win.
It's really hard to follow her way of things.
You're fond of your meat, and our views on God and His existence are divergent to say the least, but we both follow vocations.
We'll put that right now, and the rest will follow.
Follow me, girl, I will free you.
Please allow me to follow you to Europe.
We can follow him.
Mm-hm. - Then I'd follow it up with a bracelet.

News and current affairs

If the EU and the US made these two commitments, the rest of the world could follow the TTIP negotiations with hope, rather than trepidation.
I said that Pakistan would inevitably follow suit and the world would become less safe.
Most importantly, they would allow us to follow through on a global promise.
The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
It is the Czech Republic's task, and that of the Swedish EU presidency that will follow our own, to maintain this unity as the PCA negotiations move forward.
Ironically, President Bush claims that the UN does not follow through on its word.
As the Greek economics minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has said, this is attributable to European Union subsidies, which drove entrepreneurs to follow the easy money into the import sector.
But because these gains follow the massive contraction that occurred during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, they are a far cry from the trajectory of a classic V-shaped recovery.
To accomplish this, a follow-up conference to the Bonn Agreement is also required.
Tony Blair is right to call on his rich-country colleagues to follow through on their unfulfilled promises.
If adopted, this policy would set a new global standard and perhaps prompt other nations to follow suit.
I was excited to follow my older brother, who is already studying there.
However, as we saw in 2004 and 2005, exports are not enough to create substantial growth if domestic demand does not follow.
Some central banks may decide to follow suit, adding renminbi-denominated assets to their reserves to match the composition of the basket.
And the rest of Europe might never follow the example of Scandinavia, where gender equality has advanced much further than anywhere else.
Hu's trip is likely follow the example set by Wen.
It is to be hoped that many more major European corporations will follow suit.
Here, the model to follow is not the euro, but Latin America's Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Thus, some type of power struggle, rather like what occurred in the Soviet Union following Stalin's death, may invariably follow a brief period of collective rule.
Liu's harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
That shift then allowed other low-income Asian economies - South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and to some extent Malaysia and Thailand - to follow in Japan's footsteps.
But, with the right policies, there is no reason why African countries could not follow a similar trajectory.
But the systemic oppression of women tends to be cast in terms of claims for empathy: we shouldn't follow these policies because they are not nice, not enlightened.

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