Subscribe vs Follower - What's the difference?
subscribe | follower |
(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
To pay money to be a member of an organization.
To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
* Milman
(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
* Sir Thomas More
(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
* Shakespeare
(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.
As a verb subscribe
is (ergative) to sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.As a noun follower is
(literally) one who follows, comes after another.subscribe
English
Verb
(subscrib)- Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- 1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;
- Each man subscribed ten dollars.
- 1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
- Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.
- Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.
- All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
- [They] subscribed their names under them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I will subscribe him a coward.