follower
Definitions
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the Adult King Advancing, Followed by his Double -
WordNet 3.6
- n follower a person who accepts the leadership of another
- n follower someone who travels behind or pursues another
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Additional illustrations & photos:
THE WOLF FOLLOWS LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Ameer Ali follows the maiden's instructions to win more jewels
They All Follow
dogs following man on horseback
four riders following running man
Hanina and his wife followed the giant frog
OUR CAPTAIN IS ONE OF THE BEST, AND WE'RE READY TO FOLLOW HIM TO H--L.' I SUPPOSE HE MEANS THE HINDENBURG LINE
The Murder of La Salle by his Followers
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Interesting fact: George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.
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- Follower (Steam Engine) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
- Follower A sweetheart; a beau.
- Follower Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
- Follower One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
- Follower (Mach) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
- Follower (Steam Engine) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Interesting fact: Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, PA, invented the Big Mac in 1968. He originally named it the Big Mac Super Sandwich. The following year McDonald's sold it nationwide.
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- n follower One who follows another, in any sense of the verb follow. In particular— One who follows or accompanies a master or leader as servant, attendant, dependent, associate, or supporter.
- n follower One who follows a master or teacher as a disciple or adherent: one who takes another as his guide in doctrines, opinion, or example, or an adherent of a particular doctrine or system.
- n follower One who follows in practice the conduct, course, or example of another; one who conforms his conduct or course to that of some person or thing regarded as a model or pattern; an imitator: as, Terence was a follower of Menander.
- n follower A man who “keeps company” with a young woman; especially, one who is in the habit of calling upon a maid-servant to pay his addresses; a beau.
- n follower In machinery, any part of a machine moving in a limited range, as in guides, and following the motion of another part.
- n follower In a steam-engine, the cover of a piston or of a stuffing-box.
- n follower In pile-driving, a wooden block placed on top of a pile that is to be driven deeper than the weight of the pile-driver can fall. By the use of such a block the pile can be driven even after its head is under water.
- n follower A wheel which is driven by another wheel, either by a belt or by a tooth connection.
- n follower The smaller element of a compound piston, which is bolted to the larger to complete the structure. It is usually a plate, or it may be a ring. In old English designs using fibrous packing, the follower was called the junk-ring.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Interesting fact: The following is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language: "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick".
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- Follower one who comes after: a copier: a disciple: a servant-girl's sweetheart
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Quotations
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“He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.” -
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.” -
“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” -
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.” -
“I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.” -
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
Idioms
Follow your nose - When giving directions, telling someone to follow their nose means that they should go straight ahead.
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Hard act to follow - If something or something is exceptionally good, it is difficult to replace them or take their place.
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Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. folwere, AS. folgere,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. folgian, fylgian, app. a compound, but obscure; Ger. folgen.
Usage
In literature:
The trail was very easy to follow and I walked along by the side of the slow going oxen.
"Old Rail Fence Corners" by Various
This expedition was the example that the buccaneers followed for the next few years.
"The Naval History of the United States" by Willis J. Abbot
The following were the most remarkable among the numerous martyrs who suffered during this persecution.
"Fox's Book of Martyrs" by John Foxe
It is likely Clinton was too intolerant, but it was the intolerance that follows revolution.
"A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3" by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
The general procedure described in drawing down must be followed, with the following modification.
"On Laboratory Arts" by Richard Threlfall
Then he disembarked with his followers, and the King, Queen, and Prince came to satisfy their natural curiosity.
"The Philippine Islands" by John Foreman
And then following that, He was crowned with glory and honour.
"Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation" by S. D. Gordon
She knew I would still be following; she knew I was following, and for me was the writing meant.
"The War Trail" by Mayne Reid
The Comandante and his captain, as well as a large number of the spectators, followed, and crowded around to listen.
"The White Chief" by Mayne Reid
Follow him to Parida?
"The Scalp Hunters" by Mayne Reid
He follows his nature, we follow ours.
"In the Wilds of Africa" by W.H.G. Kingston
They fear an attack from the armed followers of the robber-knights.
"Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen
A complete translation of the original work now follows.
"The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana" by Vatsyayana
There is a strange significance in the salutation, as also in the little incident that follows.
"The Wild Huntress" by Mayne Reid
He followed fast, and followed faster.
"The Cryptogram" by James De Mille
What follows shows the affinity between the Pict and Welsh.
"A Handbook of the English Language" by Robert Gordon Latham
He turned to question the slaves, who, at his order, but with visible reluctance, had followed him from the villa.
"A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)" by Felix Dahn
Dromon followed her closely.
"A Struggle for Rome, v. 3" by Felix Dahn
He imagined he heard her voice calling on him to follow her.
"History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain." by William H. Prescott
Reduced Montreal the following year.
"The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History" by Various
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In poetry:
He did not know the way to go,
Because he had no map:
He followed where the winds blow,--
And the April sap.
Because he had no map:
He followed where the winds blow,--
And the April sap.
"Sandy Star And Willie Gee" by William Stanley Braithwaite
Lord, obedient we would go,
Gladly leaving all below;
Only Thou our Leader be;
And we will still follow Thee.
Gladly leaving all below;
Only Thou our Leader be;
And we will still follow Thee.
"Children of the heavenly King!" by John Cennick
It is true there is judgment
That hangs o’er the land,
But ‘t will all turn aside,
When you follow the plan.
That hangs o’er the land,
But ‘t will all turn aside,
When you follow the plan.
"Colonization Song" by Anonymous Americas
I am a peaceful working man,
I am not wise or strong,
But I can follow Nature's plan,
In labour, rest, and song.
I am not wise or strong,
But I can follow Nature's plan,
In labour, rest, and song.
"The Conscript" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
These are they whom day
Follows and gives light
Whence they see to slay
Night, and burn away
All the seed of night.
Follows and gives light
Whence they see to slay
Night, and burn away
All the seed of night.
"Christmas Antiphones" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
I was alone. A miry road
I followed, all in vain;
No well-known hill the landscape showed,
It was a wretched plain;
I followed, all in vain;
No well-known hill the landscape showed,
It was a wretched plain;
"A Book of Dreams: Part II" by George MacDonald
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"Following a deeper set of rules, being devoted to the mission, sometimes means breaking the rules you're supposed to follow," says Grenier, who has had to make some tough calls during the course of his career.
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In science:
We follow this procedure to the extent of ” reduction of multiplicity ” of an algebraic set and prove following generalization.
On certain generalized Hardy's inequalities and applications
The following lemma follows from the previous one.
Algorithmic proofs of two theorems of Stafford
It now follows from Lemma 2.2 and from the fact that g -| Q that Q cannot be properly infinite. (ii) follows from Lemma 3.1 and Lemma 4.1. (iii).
A simple C*-algebra with a finite and an infinite projection
X consists of |X | of the first letters of w , Y is |Y | of the following letters, and Z is |Z | of the letters following that.
There are no iterated morphisms that define the Arshon sequence and the $\sigma$-sequence
The following lemma immediately follows from Property 6.
Random Planar Lattices and Integrated SuperBrownian Excursion
Following , let a blossom trees be a plane tree with the following properties: • Vertices of degree one are of two types: arrows and flags.
Random Planar Lattices and Integrated SuperBrownian Excursion
So the picture is still quite similar to Figure 7 above with the following differences: here σi = σM and σd = σm , and the branches follow strictly the local flow curve, with no slight deviation due to wall layers.
A simple model for heterogeneous flows of yield stress fluids
Following a much easier argument than that in e.g. , one can prove the following local well-posedness theorem.
Melnikov Analysis for Singularly Perturbed DSII Equation
Proof: i) follows from Lemma 5.1 and ii) follows using (5.7) and the fact that (−E , 0) ∈ X(M ) × C ∞ (M , R) is a 1-cocycle of the Lie algebroid (T ∗M × R, [[ , ]](Λ,E ) , e#(Λ,E )).
Jacobi groupoids and generalized Lie bialgebroids
Our main result will follow from the following proposition, using a suitable choice of the type II1 factor.
A simple separable C*-algebra not isomorphic to its opposite algebra
Since f is (J, α)-holomorphic, |∂ J f |2 = h∂ J f , KJ (f , α)i = |KJ (f , α)|2 , so (a) follows from Proposition 1.3b while (b) and (c) follow from Proposition 1.3 (a) and (d).
Family Gromov-Witten Invariants for Kahler Surfaces
Following [Ki2], it is convenient to introduce the following definition.
Partially Ordered generalized patterns and k-ary words
In the proof of the following result we use the following simple fact, called Dedekind’s modular law.
Transitive simple subgroups of wreath products in product action
This follows for instance by associating to each such diagram an integer between 0 and 2N −1 − 1 by the following procedure: in each column of the diagram write the figure 1 at the bottom and fill the rest by 0; then read the binary number along the rim.
Abelian ideals in a Borel subalgebra of a complex simple Lie algebra
The proof of the second part of Theorem 2 follows from the following proposition.
Linear Phase Transition in Random Linear Constraint Satisfaction Problem
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