to follow out
- phrasal verb
- /ˈfɑloʊ aʊt/
- The team must follow out the project until every detail is completed.
It's not too much, but it gives you good guiding points for how to think about this stuff and how we might, you know, follow out that thread into our own time.
- It's not too much, but it gives you good guiding points for how to think about this stuff and how we might, you know, follow out that thread into our own time.
- Mathematically, you follow out all the trees and, and either there's always a win for the first player, second player, OK, and it's finite.
- So here we want to follow out a few distinctions that Heidegger is going to make here.
Examples
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They're just mechanically following out the the Euler LaGrange equations for a given Lagrangian.
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Mathematically, you follow out all the trees and, and either there's always a win for the first player, second player, OK, and it's finite.
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It's not too much, but it gives you good guiding points for how to think about this stuff and how we might, you know, follow out that thread into our own time.
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So here we want to follow out a few distinctions that Heidegger is going to make here.
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Mathematically you follow out all the trees and and either there's always a win for the first player, second player, OK, and it's finite.
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If we follow out this theme of Carlyle's "Characteristics," we find that the beginnings of epistemology are in the body.
Academic text (1997) -
If we take the name Benedict XV and follow out the same numerical addition, we find that his number, instead of being 666, would be 1123.
Blog text (30) -
We need to follow out this plan step by step to ensure its success.
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If we follow out our strategies carefully, we will achieve our goals.
Synonyms
To put a plan or rule into action
To do a task or follow instructions
To do something you promised or planned even if it feels difficult
Continue and finish something you promised to do
To make a plan or change happen
Antonyms
How Thoroughly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core verb 'follow' (to pursue) aligns with the MWE meaning, and particles like 'out' often signal completion in English (cf. 'carry out'), so a learner could partly infer 'pursue to conclusion.' However, the given literal sense of 'out' ('away from the interior') does not transparently convey 'to completion' for a B1 learner, and the completion/extension meaning is somewhat metaphorical and not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Follow out comes from the simple picture of following something — follow — until it goes out to its end, like walking a path all the way to the end. So, it means 'to carry an idea or plan through to the end'.