What's the difference between disciple and follower?

Disciple


Definition:

  • (n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
  • (v. t.) To teach; to train.
  • (v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
  • (v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the Dynamo winning three of their last four, that scenario was becoming more likely, though disciples of the Church of Dom were given reason for pause on Saturday.
  • (2) This school of thought has had a massive surge in disciples of late, as the dust settles in the aftermath of the credit crisis; now that the second wave of the credit crunch appears to be upon us, the baying for blood has become even louder and more vituperative.
  • (3) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
  • (4) Many of his disciples and coworkers became first rate scientists, owing a lot to his encouraging personality.
  • (5) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
  • (6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
  • (7) Other objections rest on the fact that Jesus chose only male disciples.
  • (8) Berizzo, a disciple of Marcelo Bielsa who he first worked under aged 14, pushes his team high up the pitch and at great speed; the ball moves quickly, the players too.
  • (9) It is maybe unsurprising, then, that many of Jacobs' disciples have had nothing but scorn for the High Line.
  • (10) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
  • (11) He's not a slavish disciple of markets, or small government (although fiscal circumstances and periodic stiffening from economic dries within the Liberal party may make him something of a latterday convert on this score at least).
  • (12) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
  • (13) In early 2015, Isis was at the height of its power, and was still attracting thousands of eager new disciples every month from all over the world.
  • (14) CBT and exercise have their disciples, but clearly aren’t panaceas.
  • (15) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.
  • (16) In 1914, Pavlov's disciple N. R. Shenger-Krestovnikova, exploring the limits of visual discrimination in dogs, noticed that when the discrimination was difficult, the dogs' behavior became disorganized.
  • (17) One of Boris Johnson’s Eurosceptic disciples interrupted a live Channel 4 broadcast on Friday night on the mayor of London’s orders.
  • (18) Graffiti is only ever graffiti when it’s done illegally.” Saysell said he was a disciple of the “broken windows theory”, the idea that tackling small acts of vandalism promotes a sense of order which prevents further crime.
  • (19) Nasser was a flawed and tragic idol by the time Gaddafi had acquired the means to emulate him, but an immensely potent one all the same, and had he lived, the disciple would have remained in the shadow of the master.
  • (20) Jiang Jiemin, another high-profile disciple of Zhou and the former head of the commission that oversees China’s state-owned companies, was sentenced to 16 years in October.

Follower


Definition:

  • (n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
  • (n.) A sweetheart; a beau.
  • (n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
  • (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
  • (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
  • (n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (3) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
  • (6) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (7) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (8) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
  • (9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (10) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
  • (11) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (12) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (13) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
  • (14) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (15) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (16) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
  • (17) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
  • (18) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
  • (19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.