follow
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English folwen, folȝen, folgen, from Old English folgian (“to follow, pursue”), from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną (“to follow”).
Inflected forms:
form: follows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: following
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: follow
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: follow
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: follow
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: followest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: followedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: follows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: followeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: follow
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: follow
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: follow
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: following
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: followed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: follows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Follow that car!
She left the room and I followed.
Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you.
Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's what humans are capable of! That's how we can defeat the Reapers!
Ambassador Udina: The others will follow us, Shepard. They know we're their only hope. We will have a human Council with a human Chairman.
gloss: To go or come after in a sequence.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: B follows A in the alphabet.
We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow.
Where a pon thys for sayd men dyd sett yᵉ prysse under yᵉ maner as here after follyzth: & Thomas Borrage yᵗ was tuthyng man at yᵉ tyme for iak Tymwell dyd gether yˢ mony yᵗ follyth & brosth hyt to yˢ for said men by causse yᵗ they schuld se every man content after their conssyens
gloss: To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Follow these instructions to the letter.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
gloss: To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To understand, to pay attention to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do you follow me?
gloss: To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I followed the incumbent throughout the election.
My friends don't regularly follow the news.
gloss: To be a supporter of (a sports team).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Sometimes I wonder what you do take any notice of—except the whistle and short skirts," speculated his superior. "But no doubt ideas are germinating."
"I follow Chelsea," maintained Horace.
gloss: To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.
gloss: To be a logical consequence of something.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It follows that if two numbers are not equal then one is larger than the other.
If you don't practise proper hygiene, illness is sure to follow.
gloss: To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: O had I but followed the Arts.
gloss: In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
sometimes
examples: a follow shot
gloss: The act of following another user's online activity.
pos: noun
examples: It doesn't take too many follows to become overwhelmed with the deluge of content on Twitter.
Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
Related words: follow along
followed by
follow in someone's footsteps
follow on
follow out
follow shot
follow someone off a cliff
follow suit
follow the leader
follow-the-leader
follow the queen
follow through
follow up
hard act to follow
soon to follow
tough act to follow
chase
Derived words: BYF
DNF
easy-to-follow
followable
follow along
follow a wheel
follow board
followee
follower
follow-home
following
follow-me-lad
follow my leader
follow-on
follow one's bliss
follow one's heart
follow one's nose
follow someone to the ends of the earth
follow someone to the ends of the world
follow that
follow the bee
follow the crowd
follow the hounds
follow the lady
follow the money
follow the sun
follow the wind
follow-through
follow to the grave
follow-up
follow up on
follow-worthy
unfollow
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