What's the difference between follow and stalk?

Follow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
  • (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
  • (v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.
  • (v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
  • (v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
  • (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
  • (v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  • (v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

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.

Stalk


Definition:

  • (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
  • (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
  • (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
  • (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  • (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
  • (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  • (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  • (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
  • (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
  • (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
  • (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
  • (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
  • (2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
  • (3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
  • (4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
  • (5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
  • (6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
  • (7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
  • (8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
  • (9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
  • (11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
  • (12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
  • (13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
  • (14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
  • (15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
  • (16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
  • (17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
  • (19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.