| comply | | |
| v. (social) | 1. abide by, comply, follow | act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes.; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow these simple rules"; "abide by the rules" |
| ~ stick with, stick to, follow | keep to.; "Stick to your principles"; "stick to the diet" |
| ~ oblige, accommodate | provide a service or favor for someone.; "We had to oblige him" |
| ~ adopt, espouse, follow | choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals" |
| ~ toe the line | do what is expected. |
| ~ obey | be obedient to. |
| ~ conform to | observe.; "conform to the rules" |
| conforming | | |
| adj. | 1. conforming, conformist | adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion). |
| ~ faith, religion, religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.; "he lost his faith but not his morality" |
| ~ orthodox | adhering to what is commonly accepted.; "an orthodox view of the world" |
| following | | |
| n. (group) | 1. followers, following | a group of followers or enthusiasts. |
| ~ hoi polloi, masses, the great unwashed, multitude, people, mass | the common people generally.; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" |
| ~ claque | a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance. |
| ~ faithful | any loyal and steadfast following. |
| ~ fandom | the fans of a sport or famous person. |
| ~ buff, devotee, lover, fan | an ardent follower and admirer. |
| n. (act) | 2. chase, following, pursual, pursuit | the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture.; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| ~ tracking, trailing | the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. |
| ~ shadowing, tailing | the act of following someone secretly. |
| ~ stalking, stalk | the act of following prey stealthily. |
| adj. | 3. following, undermentioned | about to be mentioned or specified.; "the following items" |
| ~ succeeding | coming after or following. |
| adj. | 4. following, next | immediately following in time or order.; "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list" |
| ~ succeeding | coming after or following. |
| adj. | 5. following | going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction.; "the crowd of following cars made the occasion seem like a parade"; "tried to outrun the following footsteps" |
| ~ pursuing | following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit.; "the fox fled from the pursuing hounds"; "listened for the hounds' pursuing bark" |
| adj. | 6. following | in the desired direction.; "a following wind" |
| ~ favorable, favourable | (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate.; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable" |
| comply | | |
| conform | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. conform | be similar, be in line with. |
| ~ scan | conform to a metrical pattern. |
| v. (change) | 2. adapt, adjust, conform | adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ readjust, readapt | adjust anew.; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust" |
| ~ readapt | adapt anew.; "He readapted himself" |
| ~ assimilate | become similar to one's environment.; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" |
| ~ focalise, focalize, focus | become focussed or come into focus.; "The light focused" |
| ~ acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize | get used to a certain climate.; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" |
| ~ match | be equal or harmonize.; "The two pieces match" |
| ~ obey | be obedient to. |
| ~ square | cause to match, as of ideas or acts. |
| trace | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. hint, suggestion, trace | a just detectable amount.; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| ~ spark | a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger.; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency" |
| n. (communication) | 2. shadow, tincture, trace, vestige | an indication that something has been present.; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" |
| ~ footprint | a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important.; "the footprints of an earlier civilization" |
| ~ indicant, indication | something that serves to indicate or suggest.; "an indication of foul play"; "indications of strain"; "symptoms are the prime indicants of disease" |
| n. (communication) | 3. ghost, touch, trace | a suggestion of some quality.; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" |
| ~ proffer, proposition, suggestion | a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection.; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. trace, tracing | a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image. |
| ~ drawing | a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines.; "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. trace | either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree. |
| ~ harness | stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart. |
| ~ line | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.; "a washing line" |
| n. (communication) | 6. trace | a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle. |
| ~ print, mark | a visible indication made on a surface.; "some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw prints were everywhere" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. follow, trace | follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba"; "trace the student's progress" |
| ~ keep abreast, keep up, follow | keep informed.; "He kept up on his country's foreign policies" |
| ~ analyse, analyze, examine, study, canvass, canvas | consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" |
| ~ keep an eye on, watch over, watch, observe, follow | follow with the eyes or the mind.; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars" |
| v. (contact) | 8. delineate, describe, draw, line, trace | make a mark or lines on a surface.; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" |
| ~ mark | make or leave a mark on.; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" |
| ~ construct | draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions.; "construct an equilateral triangle" |
| ~ inscribe | draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible. |
| ~ circumscribe | draw a line around.; "He drew a circle around the points" |
| ~ circumscribe | to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect. |
| ~ draw | engage in drawing.; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ write | mark or trace on a surface.; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet" |
| v. (motion) | 9. retrace, trace | to go back over again.; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" |
| ~ return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" |
| v. (motion) | 10. hound, hunt, trace | pursue or chase relentlessly.; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" |
| ~ chase, dog, give chase, go after, tail, chase after, trail, track, tag | go after with the intent to catch.; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" |
| ~ ferret | hound or harry relentlessly. |
| v. (perception) | 11. trace | discover traces of.; "She traced the circumstances of her birth" |
| ~ detect, discover, notice, observe, find | discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" |
| v. (motion) | 12. trace | make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along.; "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture" |
| ~ go forward, proceed, continue | move ahead; travel onward in time or space.; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" |
| v. (creation) | 13. trace | copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of.; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern" |
| ~ re-create, copy | make a replica of.; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt" |
| v. (cognition) | 14. decipher, trace | read with difficulty.; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs" |
| ~ read | interpret something that is written or printed.; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?" |
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