Definition of "follow"

follow

/ˈfɒləʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present follows, present participle following, simple past and past participle followed
1. (transitive, intransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
  Quotations
  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.
  2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel
2. (transitive, intransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
3. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
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  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.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., pages 58–59
4. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
5. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
6. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
7. (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
9. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  Quotations
  O had I but followed the Arts.
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii], page 256, column 2
noun
plural follows
1. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
2. (social media) The act of following another user's online activity.
  Quotations
  It doesn't take too many follows to become overwhelmed with the deluge of content on Twitter.
  2012, Brett Petersel, Esther Schindler, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Twitter Marketing
  Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
  2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book

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