0 past simple and past participle of follow --
1 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.
2 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).
4 to have a great interest in something or watch something closely: --
5 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.
All questionnaire items were followed by a question and two possible answer options, and the subjects were asked to indicate their preferred interpretation.
This was followed by moves to loosen restrictions on certain types of international transactions in order to help modernise and internationalise the financial sector.
It thus will not be followed up here.
An initial warm-up conversation was followed by four narrative tasks in which the child was expected to produce at least one narrative.
Migrating crest cells could be followed through the pharyngeal arches and the somites targeting to the arterial ostium level and the sinuatrial region.
So far she followed traditional patterns of succession.
This study reveals perceptual misbinding of color, thereby revealing separate neural representations of color and form followed by a subsequent binding process.
In both tables, the analysis has been restricted to pregnancies followed sufficiently long for any type of outcome to be identified.
