Follow vs. Fallow

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  • Follow (verb)

    To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.

    “Follow that car!”

  • Follow (verb)

    To go or come after in a sequence.

    “B follows A in the alphabet.”

    “We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow.”

  • Follow (verb)

    To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).

    “Follow these instructions to the letter.”

  • Follow (verb)

    To live one’s life according to (religion, teachings, etc).

  • Follow (verb)

    To understand, to pay attention to.

    “Do you follow me?”

  • Follow (verb)

    To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.

    “I followed the incumbent throughout the election.”

    “My friends don’t regularly follow the news.”

  • Follow (verb)

    To be a logical consequence of.

    “It follows that if two numbers are not equal then one is larger than the other.”

  • Follow (verb)

    To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

  • Follow (noun)

    In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.

    “a follow shot”

  • Follow (noun)

    The act of following another user’s online activity.

  • Fallow (noun)

    Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

  • Fallow (noun)

    Uncultivated land.

  • Fallow (noun)

    The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

  • Fallow (adjective)

    Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.

  • Fallow (adjective)

    Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

  • Fallow (adjective)

    Inactive; undeveloped.

    “a fallow period in one’s career”

  • Fallow (adjective)

    Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

    “a fallow deer or greyhound”

    “color panel|C19A6B”

  • Fallow (verb)

    To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Wiktionary
  • Follow (verb)

    go or come after (a person or thing proceeding ahead); move or travel behind

    “the men followed in another car”

    “she went back into the house, and Ben followed her”

  • Follow (verb)

    go after (someone) in order to observe or monitor them

    “the KGB man followed her everywhere”

  • Follow (verb)

    strive after; aim at

    “I follow fame”

  • Follow (verb)

    go along (a route or path).

  • Follow (verb)

    (of a route or path) go in the same direction as or parallel to (another)

    “the road follows the track of the railway line”

  • Follow (verb)

    trace the movement or direction of

    “she followed his gaze, peering into the gloom”

  • Follow (verb)

    come after in time or order

    “the rates are as follows”

    “the six years that followed his restoration”

  • Follow (verb)

    happen after (something else) as a consequence

    “raucous laughter followed the ribald remark”

    “retribution soon followed”

    “the announcement followed on from the collapse of the merchant bank”

  • Follow (verb)

    be a logical consequence of something

    “it thus follows from this equation that the value must be negative”

  • Follow (verb)

    (of a person) do something after (something else)

    “they follow their March show with four UK dates next month”

  • Follow (verb)

    have (a dish or course) after another or others during a meal

    “turkey was followed by dessert”

  • Follow (verb)

    act according to (an instruction or precept)

    “he has difficulty in following written instructions”

  • Follow (verb)

    conform to

    “the film faithfully follows Shakespeare’s plot”

  • Follow (verb)

    act according to the lead or example of (someone)

    “he follows Aristotle in believing this”

  • Follow (verb)

    treat as a teacher or guide

    “those who seek to follow Jesus Christ”

  • Follow (verb)

    pay close attention to

    “I’ve been following this discussion closely”

  • Follow (verb)

    take an active interest in or be a supporter of

    “supporters who have followed the club through thick and thin”

  • Follow (verb)

    (of a book, film, programme, etc.) be concerned with or trace the development of

    “the book follows the life and career of Henry Clay”

  • Follow (verb)

    track (a person, group, or organization) by subscribing to their account on a social media website or application

    “I don’t follow many celebrities on Twitter any more”

    “if you’ve been following me on Facebook recently you may have seen a bunch of different posts about surgery and back trouble”

  • Follow (verb)

    understand the meaning or tendency of (a speaker or argument)

    “I still don’t follow you”

  • Follow (verb)

    practise (a trade or profession).

  • Follow (verb)

    undertake or carry out (a course of action or study)

    “she followed a strict diet”

  • Fallow (adjective)

    (of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production

    “incentives for farmers to let land lie fallow”

  • Fallow (adjective)

    (of a period of time) characterized by inaction; unproductive

    “long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen”

  • Fallow (adjective)

    (of a sow) not pregnant.

  • Fallow (noun)

    a piece of fallow land

    “strips of summer fallow”

    “a great estate was usually divided between fallows, grazed stubble, and wheat”

  • Fallow (noun)

    a pale brown or reddish yellow colour

    “possible feather colours include fallows, pieds, and yellows”

  • Fallow (verb)

    leave (land) fallow for a period

    “fallow the ground for a week or so after digging”

Oxford Dictionary

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