Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of following through.
- noun Sports The concluding part of a stroke, after a ball or other object has been hit or released.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In golf, the course described by the club in the swing after the ball is struck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Carrying a process, plan, or project to full completion. The term usually is used in reference to the period after some point in time at which the actor is given freedom to pursue the project.
- noun (Golf, Baseball, Tennis) The remainder of a stroke with a club, bat, or racket after the ball has been hit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
continuance orcompletion of aproject - noun sports The continued action of a
stroke , or of thedelivery of aball , after it has been hit or released
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
- verb carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball
- noun carrying some project or intention to full completion
- noun the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion
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Examples
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We have something that's called a follow-through day, which we had, so we are in a confirmed uptrend.
Forbes.com: News Kate Stalter 2011
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 Swinging through the ball so that your follow-through is 25% longer than your take-away
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"Big promises were made and there was very little follow-through, that's very typical of how things work in Haiti," she told The Huffington Post.
Broken Promises: A Year Later, Post-Quake Haiti Struggles For Help Marcus Baram 2011
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Nevertheless, over a four-day period, Matthew was subjected to “a colonoscopy, a barium meal and follow-through, an MRI scan of his brain, a lumbar puncture . . . an EEG and other neurophysiological tests, and a variety of blood and urine tests.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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"Big promises were made and there was very little follow-through, that's very typical of how things work in Haiti," she told The Huffington Post.
Broken Promises: A Year Later, Post-Quake Haiti Struggles For Help Marcus Baram 2011
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Nevertheless, over a four-day period, Matthew was subjected to “a colonoscopy, a barium meal and follow-through, an MRI scan of his brain, a lumbar puncture . . . an EEG and other neurophysiological tests, and a variety of blood and urine tests.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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I know lots of knots, but the single one I USE the most is the figure 8 in several variations (on a bight, follow-through, etc).
what is the most imprtiant knot when it comes to survival? 2009
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Carol Moseley Braun served as County Recorder of Deeds for four years - some twenty years ago -- where she instituted an ethics code and went after ghost payrollers and double dippers, but she was not given high marks on follow-through.
Curtis Black: Real Leadership for Chicago: The Reformer v. the Players Curtis Black 2011
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I know lots of knots, but the single one I USE the most is the figure 8 in several variations (on a bight, follow-through, etc).
what is the most imprtiant knot when it comes to survival? 2009
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"Big promises were made and there was very little follow-through, that's very typical of how things work in Haiti," she told The Huffington Post.
Broken Promises: A Year Later, Post-Quake Haiti Struggles For Help Marcus Baram 2011
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