Follow vs Submit - What's the difference?
follow | submit |
To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
To go or come after in a sequence.
To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
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To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
To understand, to pay attention to.
To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
To be a logical consequence of.
To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
* Shakespeare
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
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(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
In transitive terms the difference between follow and submit
is that follow is to walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling while submit is or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.follow
English
Verb
(en verb)- We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow .
- O, had I but followed the arts!
Synonyms
* (go after in a physical space) trail, tail * (in a sequence) succeed * (carry out) pursue * (be a consequence) ensueAntonyms
* (go after in a physical space) guide, lead * (go after in a sequence) precedeDerived terms
* followable * follow along * followed by * follower * following * follow in someone's footsteps * follow on * follow out * follow shot * follow suit * follow someone off a cliff * follow the leader/follow-the-leader * follow the queen * follow through * follow-through * follow up * follow-up * hard act to follow * soon to follow * tough act to followSee also
* chaseStatistics
*submit
English
Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
- "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.