Invertext Online Technical Dictionary

follow

transitive verb  

seguir

Definition 1

Go or come after (moving person or thing).

Source: Concise Oxford Dictionary


Context: After BMW and Toyota followed Honda out of the sport [motor racing], the grid in Bahrain consists of 12 teams, with eight based in the UK.

Source: Financial Times 13/03/2010 (Roger Blitz, Leisure Industries Correspondent)

Definition 2

Go along (path, route, etc.)

Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary


Context: Finally, they followed the path often taken by successful entrepreneurs: investing in other people's businesses.

Source: Financial Times 21/02/2011 (Mike Southon)

Definition 3

Show interest in, go after (person or thing) as follower, supporter, etc.

Source: Concise Oxford Dictionary


Context: He does not follow football, but is fascinated by Fifa.

Source: Financial Times 23/06/2011 (Jeremy Hazlehurst)

Definition 4

Be the necessary or usual consequence of, be involved or implicated in.

Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary


Context: Good money follows bad.

Source: gulfinthemedia.com

Definition 5

Pay attention to, keep up with (lesson, plot, argument, etc.).

Source: Invertext


Context: What non-scientists need to know to follow the debate on climate change.

Source: Financial Times 09/02/2008 (Andrew Robinson)

Definition 6

Watch moving object.

Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary


Context: I first saw it just above the horizon, and followed the [unidentified] object until it disappeared.

Source: anakinovni.org

Appears in the following subjects

Banking