noun
Meaning 1
A subsidiary action taken in response to an event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
follow-up
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noun
Meaning 2
A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
Nonstandard form of follow up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, nonstandard
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: followup, reexamination, review
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: examination, scrutiny
noun
Meaning 7
an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: followup
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: activity
noun
Meaning 8
a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: followup
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: work, piece of work
History
Etymology
Deverbal from follow up.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: opfølgning — subsidiary action
- Finnish: jatkotoimenpide — subsidiary action
- Finnish: seuranta — subsidiary action
- Finnish: jälkihoito — subsidiary action
- French: suivi — subsidiary action
- Galician: seguimento — subsidiary action
- German: compounds beginning with Folge — subsidiary action
- German: in legal administration Wiedervorlage — subsidiary action
- Italian: seguito — subsidiary action
- Italian: mantenimento — subsidiary action
- Māori: turukitanga — subsidiary action
- Norwegian Bokmål: oppfølging — subsidiary action
- Norwegian Nynorsk: oppfølging — subsidiary action
- Portuguese: seguimento — subsidiary action
- Spanish: proseguimiento — subsidiary action
- Swedish: uppföljning — subsidiary action
- Danish: svar — Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
- Finnish: vastaus — Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
- Galician: resposta — Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
- Italian: risposta — Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
- Spanish: contestación — Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
- Swedish: svar — Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
- Danish: opfølgning — sports: shot on goal directly following another
- Finnish: jatkolaukaus — sports: shot on goal directly following another
- Russian: добивание (dobivanije) — sports: shot on goal directly following another
- Danish: efterundersøgelse — (medicine) revisiting
- Finnish: seurantakäynti — (medicine) revisiting
- French: suivi — (medicine) revisiting
- Galician: seguimento — (medicine) revisiting
- German: Folgeuntersuchung — (medicine) revisiting
- German: Nachuntersuchung — (medicine) revisiting
- Italian: follow-up — (medicine) revisiting
- Portuguese: seguimento — (medicine) revisiting
- Russian: последующее наблюдение (posledujuščeje nabljudenije) — (medicine) revisiting
- Russian: последующее врачебное наблюдение (posledujuščeje vračebnoje nabljudenije) — (medicine) revisiting
- Spanish: seguimiento — (medicine) revisiting
Real reading context