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Following   /fˈɑloʊɪŋ/   Listen
Following

adjective
1.
About to be mentioned or specified.  Synonym: undermentioned.
2.
Immediately following in time or order.  Synonym: next.  "Next in line" , "The next president" , "The next item on the list"
3.
Going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction.  "Tried to outrun the following footsteps"
4.
In the desired direction.
noun
1.
A group of followers or enthusiasts.  Synonym: followers.
2.
The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture.  Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit.



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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— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... I've been two years in debt to my landlord, and at the end of every quarter I've always prayed like a modest woman to be allowed to pass by unnoticed. Celebrity has fallen on me at last, though, and I'm to go at Easter. Madame de Trop, too, has put the screw on, and everybody else is following suit. Yesterday, for example, I had the honour of a call from every one in the world to whom I owed twopence. Remembering how hard it used to be to get a bill out of these people, I find their sudden ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine

... holding her son Henry, then fourteen years of age, by one hand, and Henry, son of the Prince de Conde, by the other, and devoted them both to the cause. The young Henry of Navarre was then proclaimed generalissimo of the army and protector of the churches. He took the following oath: "I swear to defend the Protestant religion, and to persevere in the common cause, till death or till victory has secured for all the ...
— Henry IV, Makers of History • John S. C. Abbott


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