Following
['fɒləʊɪŋ] or ['fɑloɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a group of followers or enthusiasts.
(adj.) immediately following in time or order; 'the following day'; 'next in line'; 'the next president'; 'the next item on the list' .
(adj.) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction; 'the crowd of following cars made the occasion seem like a parade'; 'tried to outrun the following footsteps' .
(adj.) about to be mentioned or specified; 'the following items' .
(adj.) in the desired direction; 'a following wind' .
Inputed by Jon--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Follow
(n.) One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
(n.) Vocation; business; profession.
(a.) Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
(a.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- Here I borrowed a horse from my uncle, and the following day we proceeded on our journey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So on the following day they started north along the shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- All the following day the same scene continued. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The following conclusions are drawn up chiefly from Gartner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The carriage was ready: they were bringing it round to the front, and my master was pacing the pavement, Pilot following him backwards and forwards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- On the 29th of January I arrived at Young's Point and assumed command the following day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Again, let us see how the democratical man grows out of the oligarchical: the following, as I suspect, is commonly the process. Plato. The Republic.
- Early only found that he had been following us when he ran against Hancock at Todd's Tavern. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dorothea was hurt by this movement following up the previous anger of his tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Nola