Go_after vs Accompany - What's the difference?
go_after | accompany | Related terms |
To pursue in attempt to catch another.
To pursue an object or a goal.
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
* 1804 :
* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
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, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
Go_after is a related term of accompany.
As verbs the difference between go_after and accompany
is that go_after is to pursue in attempt to catch another while accompany is to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.go_after
English
Verb
(someone or something)- The downed officer couldn't go after the criminal.
- In little league, usually everyone goes after the ball.
- Inspired, the scientist went''' right '''after the new idea.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with "going after someone", meaning following someone or something in sequence.See also
* get after English phrasal verbsaccompany
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
