Supervise vs Follow - What's the difference?
supervise | follow |
To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge
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, title= (obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
* 1590 , , IV. ii. 120:
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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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
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
As verbs the difference between supervise and follow
is that supervise is while follow is to go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.supervise
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Verb
(supervis)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
- Let me supervise the canzonet.
follow
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Verb
(en verb)- We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow .
- O, had I but followed the arts!