Follow and View

Follow

Follow verb - To keep one's eyes on.

Usage example: stood on the platform and followed the departing train until it disappeared from sight

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View and follow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "View" instead a verb "Follow".

Nearby Words: following, follower, followed

View verb - To look over closely (as for judging quality or condition).

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Follow and view are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Follow" instead a verb "View".

Nearby Words: viewpoint, viewed, viewing, viewer, viewable

religion	follow religion	view religion
life	follow life	view life
man	follow man	view man
people	follow people	view people
Other words: god, series, time, way, story, ending, events.

Some don't mind it much and feel that it encourages them to discover new friends, but others argue that if they really want to see conversations involving people they don't follow, they'll just view the replying user's timeline instead.

Source: Broken Base / Internet
However, considering the amount of YMMV, Mind Screw and symbolic interpretations (paranoia to follow), there are undoubtedly other ways to view this scenario.

Source: Literature / VALIS
Link in wolf form In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess can follow scent trails, represented as colored vapor trails in his Predator-vision "sense view".

Source: The Nose Knows

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