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Follow (verb)
To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
“Follow that car!”
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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.”
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Follow (verb)
To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
“Follow these instructions to the letter.”
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Follow (verb)
To live one’s life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
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Follow (verb)
To understand, to pay attention to.
“Do you follow me?”
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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.”
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Follow (verb)
To be a logical consequence of.
“It follows that if two numbers are not equal then one is larger than the other.”
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Follow (verb)
To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
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Follow (noun)
In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
“a follow shot”
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Follow (noun)
The act of following another user’s online activity.
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Fallow (noun)
Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
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Fallow (noun)
Uncultivated land.
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Fallow (noun)
The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
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Fallow (adjective)
Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
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Fallow (adjective)
Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
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Fallow (adjective)
Inactive; undeveloped.
“a fallow period in one’s career”
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Fallow (adjective)
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
“a fallow deer or greyhound”
“color panel|C19A6B”
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Fallow (verb)
To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
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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”
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Follow (verb)
go after (someone) in order to observe or monitor them
“the KGB man followed her everywhere”
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Follow (verb)
strive after; aim at
“I follow fame”
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Follow (verb)
go along (a route or path).
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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”
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Follow (verb)
trace the movement or direction of
“she followed his gaze, peering into the gloom”
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Follow (verb)
come after in time or order
“the rates are as follows”
“the six years that followed his restoration”
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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”
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Follow (verb)
be a logical consequence of something
“it thus follows from this equation that the value must be negative”
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Follow (verb)
(of a person) do something after (something else)
“they follow their March show with four UK dates next month”
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Follow (verb)
have (a dish or course) after another or others during a meal
“turkey was followed by dessert”
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Follow (verb)
act according to (an instruction or precept)
“he has difficulty in following written instructions”
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Follow (verb)
conform to
“the film faithfully follows Shakespeare’s plot”
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Follow (verb)
act according to the lead or example of (someone)
“he follows Aristotle in believing this”
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Follow (verb)
treat as a teacher or guide
“those who seek to follow Jesus Christ”
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Follow (verb)
pay close attention to
“I’ve been following this discussion closely”
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Follow (verb)
take an active interest in or be a supporter of
“supporters who have followed the club through thick and thin”
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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”
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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”
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Follow (verb)
understand the meaning or tendency of (a speaker or argument)
“I still don’t follow you”
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Follow (verb)
practise (a trade or profession).
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Follow (verb)
undertake or carry out (a course of action or study)
“she followed a strict diet”
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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”
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Fallow (adjective)
(of a period of time) characterized by inaction; unproductive
“long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen”
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Fallow (adjective)
(of a sow) not pregnant.
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Fallow (noun)
a piece of fallow land
“strips of summer fallow”
“a great estate was usually divided between fallows, grazed stubble, and wheat”
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Fallow (noun)
a pale brown or reddish yellow colour
“possible feather colours include fallows, pieds, and yellows”
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Fallow (verb)
leave (land) fallow for a period
“fallow the ground for a week or so after digging”