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v. accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of; "Let's follow our great helmsman!"; "She followed a guru for years"

follow

v. be next; "Mary plays best, with John and Sue following"

follow

v. grasp the meaning; "Can you follow her argument?"; "When he lectures, I cannot follow"

postdate, follow

v. be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday"

follow, fall out

v. come as a logical consequence; follow logically; "It follows that your assertion is false"; "the theorem falls out nicely"

follow, come after

v. come after in time, as a result; "A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake"

come, follow

v. to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience"

be, follow

v. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"

follow, conform to

v. behave in accordance or in agreement with; "Follow a pattern"; "Follow my example"

comply, follow, abide by

v. act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow these simple rules"; "abide by the rules"

surveil, follow, survey

v. keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing"

adopt, follow, espouse

v. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

succeed, come after, follow

v. be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"

stick to, stick with, follow

v. keep to; "Stick to your principles"; "stick to the diet"

watch, observe, follow, watch over, keep an eye on

v. follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars"

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match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree

v. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

agree

v. consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone"

adjust, conform, adapt

v. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"

sew, tailor, tailor-make

v. create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?"

note, observe, observe with care

v. observe with care or pay close attention to; "Take note of this chemical reaction"

champion, defend

v. protect or fight for as a champion

prefer

v. give preference to one creditor over another

adopt, take in

v. take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"

result

v. come about or follow as a consequence; "nothing will result from this meeting"

witness, find, see

v. perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

watch

v. observe or determine by looking; "Watch how the dog chases the cats away"

watch, view, see, catch, take in

v. see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie"

consider

v. regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family"

find

v. perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"

analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas

v. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"

explore

v. travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in biology"

research, search, explore

v. inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

explore

v. examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes

explore, examine minutely

v. examine minutely

baby-sit, sit

v. work or act as a baby-sitter; "I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do"

glance, peek, glint

v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"

obey

v. be obedient to

audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect

v. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; "audit accounts and tax returns"

regard, consider

v. look at attentively

survey

v. make a survey of; for statistical purposes

survey

v. look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates"

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predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

disobey

v. refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired"

resist, balk, baulk, jib

v. refuse to comply

precede, come before

v. be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"

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