Follower vs Shadow - What's the difference?
follower | shadow | Synonyms |
(literally) One who follows, comes after another.
Something that comes after another thing.
One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
An imitator, who follows another's example
A pursuer.
A machine part receiving motion from another
A man courting a maidservant.
Young cattle.
A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
(Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position.
(colloquial, dated) A debt collector.
A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
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Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
* Denham
* Spenser
(obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
That which looms as though a shadow.
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A small degree; a shade.
* Bible, James i. 17
An imperfect and faint representation.
* Bible, Hebrews x. 1
* Milton
One who secretly or furtively follows another.
* Milton
A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
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A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
To block light or radio transmission.
(espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
(programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
(computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
Follower is a synonym of shadow.
As nouns the difference between follower and shadow
is that follower is (literally) one who follows, comes after another while shadow is a dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.As a verb shadow is
to block light or radio transmission.follower
English
(wikipedia follower)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* leader * precursorDerived terms
* followership * nonfollowershadow
English
(wikipedia shadow)Noun
(en noun)- Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.
- In secret shadow from the sunny ray, / On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.
- (Shakespeare)
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow' cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose ' shadow falls over us all.
- no variableness, neither shadow of turning
- He came back from war the shadow of a man.
- the law having a shadow of good things to come
- [types] and shadows of that destined seed
- Sin and her shadow Death
- Hence, horrible shadow !
- (Nares)
Usage notes
* A person (or object) is said to "cast", "have", or "throw" a shadow if that shadow is caused by the person (either literally, by eclipsing a light source, or figuratively). The shadow may then be described as the shadow "cast" or "thrown" by the person, or as the shadow "of" the person, or simply as the person's shadow.Derived terms
* backshadowing * foreshadowing * rain shadow * shadow acting * shadow boxing * shadow cabinet * shadow government * shadow minister * shadow play * shadow price * sideshadowing * unshadowVerb
(en verb)- Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.