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• follow close upon — index hunt Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Follow-on — is a term used in the sport of cricket to describe a situation where the team that bats second is forced to take its second batting innings immediately after its first, because the team was not able to get close enough (within 200 runs) to the… …   Wikipedia

• tread upon the heels of — Follow close upon …   New dictionary of synonyms

• close — close1 W1S1 [kləuz US klouz] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(shut)¦ 2¦(move parts together)¦ 3¦(shut for period of time)¦ 4¦(stop operating)¦ 5¦(end)¦ 6 close an account 7¦(in money markets)¦ 8 close a deal/sale/contract etc 9¦(offer finishes)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• follow — I. v. a. 1. Come or go after or behind, go in the rear or in the wake of, tread in the steps of, tread on the heels of. 2. Succeed, come next, tread close upon. 3. Pursue, chase, run after, go after. 4. Attend, accompany, go along with, keep… …   New dictionary of synonyms

• To tread upon — Tread Tread, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro?a, Sw. tr[*a]da, tr[ a]da, Dan. tr[ae]de, Goth.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• To tread upon the heels of — Tread Tread, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro?a, Sw. tr[*a]da, tr[ a]da, Dan. tr[ae]de, Goth.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• follow — vb 1 Follow, succeed, ensue, supervene mean to come after someone or, more often, something. Although all of these verbs occur as transitives and intransitives, ensue and supervene are more commonly intransitive verbs. Follow is the general term… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• follow — Synonyms and related words: abide by, absorb, accept, accept advice, accommodate, accommodate with, accompany, accord, act up to, adapt, adapt to, address, adhere to, adjust, adjust to, admire, adopt, afford proof of, agree with, align, angle for …   Moby Thesaurus

• Close-packing of spheres — hcp and fcc close packing of spheres In geometry, close packing of spheres is a dense arrangement of equal spheres in an infinite, regular arrangement (or lattice). Carl Friedrich Gauss proved that the highest average density – that is, the… …   Wikipedia

• Close encounter of Cussac — The Close encounter of Cussac is the name given to an event which happened to a young brother and sister in Cussac, Cantal, France in August 1967. They reported a UFO sighting and encounter with alien beings. Contents 1 The testimony 2 The… …   Wikipedia