0 to move behind someone or something and go where he, she, or it goes: --
When one airline reduces its prices, the rest soon follow suit.
Do your own thing, don't just follow the crowd (= do what everyone else does).
I could feel them following me with their eyes (= watching my movements closely).
He had the feeling he was being followed (= someone was going after him to catch him or see where he was going).
She followed me into the kitchen.
1 to happen or come after something: --
The winners are as follows - Woods, Smith, and Cassidy.
She published a book of poems and followed it (up) with (= next produced) a novel.
The meal consisted of spinach salad, followed by roast chicken (= with this as the next part).
The book was delivered yesterday with a note saying the bill for it would follow in a day or two.
We were not prepared for the events that followed (= happened next).
3 to have a great interest in something or watch something closely: --
4 to happen as a result, or to be a likely result: --
[ + that ] Just because I agreed last time, it doesn't necessarily follow that I will again.
5 to understand something as it is being said or done: --
His lecture was complicated and difficult to follow.
The divisibility of n by 8 follows from the formula n = 4sm.
The plan of our article is as follows.
I don't want anyone to fail in following my orders.
So the first conclusion in this chain argument does not follow.
But we cannot follow the path of verismo.
The rest of the paper is organised as follows.
The remainder of the paper is organized as follows.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows.
