follow
IPA: fˈɑɫoʊ
noun
- (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
- (social media) The act of following another user's online activity.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive, intransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
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Examples of "follow" in Sentences
- Yes, ma'am, you have a-- that is what we call a follow-up.
- I believe the only rules our soldiers should be made to follow is to win.
- And in the former stanza, for _all follow this_, we might read, _all follow_ thee.
- One good practice to follow is to use larger stones as often as possible for the lower courses.
- The best course for the White House to follow is to totally and absolutely ignore the Fox News organization.
- The storyline, while a bit tough to follow, is very interesting, and seems to follow from the high level of integration between humanity and technology depicted.
- There are many believers of Christ but I would argue that there are few followers of Christ; for to follow is to consider your neighbor (i.e., your fellow human being) and give unselfishly to those in need.
- If you would go to the political world, follow the great road, follow that marketman, keep his dust in your eyes, and it will lead you straight to it; for it, too, has its place merely, and does not occupy all space.
- I will follow your holy deception; �-follow till ye have brought me to the feet of my Father in Heaven, where I shall find you all with folded wings spangling the sapphire dusk whereon stands His throne, which is our home.
- Whenever all the media and political establishment are jumping on the telephone wire like a horde of blackbirds, embracing the same conventional wisdom about the results of an election, the usual rule to follow is to jump in the other direction.
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