The difference between Follow and Succeed

When used as verbs, follow means to go after, whereas succeed means to follow in order.

Follow is also noun with the meaning: in billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.

check bellow for the other definitions of Follow and Succeed

  1. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.

    Examples:

    "'Follow that car!"

  2. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To go or come after in a sequence.

    Examples:

    "B follows A in the alphabet."

    "We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow."

  3. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).

    Examples:

    "'Follow these instructions to the letter."

  4. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).

  5. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To understand, to pay attention to.

    Examples:

    "Do you follow me?"

  6. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.

    Examples:

    "I followed the incumbent throughout the election."

    "My friends don't regularly follow the news."

  7. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To be a logical consequence of.

    Examples:

    "It follows that if two numbers are not equal then one is larger than the other."

  8. Follow as a verb (transitive):

    To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

  1. Follow as a noun (sometimes, attributive):

    In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.

    Examples:

    "a follow shot"

  2. Follow as a noun (internet):

    The act of following another user's online activity.

  1. Succeed as a verb:

    To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.

    Examples:

    "The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne."

    "Autumn succeeds summer."

  2. Succeed as a verb:

    To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.

    Examples:

    "The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime."

  3. Succeed as a verb (obsolete, rare):

    To fall heir to; to inherit.

    Examples:

    "So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king."

  4. Succeed as a verb:

    To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

  5. Succeed as a verb:

    To support; to prosper; to promote.

  6. Succeed as a verb:

    To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

  7. Succeed as a verb:

    To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

  8. Succeed as a verb:

    To go under cover.

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