What's the difference between follower and servant?

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.

Servant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
  • (n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
  • (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
  • (v. t.) To subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
  • (4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
  • (5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
  • (6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
  • (8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
  • (9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
  • (10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
  • (11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
  • (12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
  • (13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
  • (14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
  • (15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
  • (16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
  • (17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
  • (18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
  • (19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.