suivre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- catch verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
- follow verb To move behind someone or something, going in the same direction.
- reflect verb To bounce light, sound, or an image back off a surface.
- trail verb To follow closely behind someone or something.
Senses
suivre is used for these senses in English:
- call (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- catch (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
- follow (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- follow (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- go by To follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.
- reflect (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
- trail (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
call — full definition
- verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
- verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
- verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
- noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.
catch — full definition
- verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
- verb To become infected with an illness.
- verb To notice, understand, or hear something.
- noun A hidden difficulty or drawback in an otherwise appealing deal or plan.
- noun Something captured, especially fish.