Follow

1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
2. To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
3. To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
4. To copy after; to take as an example.
5. To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
6. To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
7. To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
8. To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
Follow board (Founding),
a board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask.
To follow the hounds ,
to hunt with dogs.
To follow suit (Card Playing),
to play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set.
To follow up ,
to pursue indefatigably.

1. To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
   

1. The art or process of following; specif., in some games, as billiards, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. Also used adjectively; as, follow shot.