AS FOLLOWS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does as follows mean? 

• AS FOLLOWS (adverb)
  The adverb AS FOLLOWS has 1 sense:

1. what is listed next

  Familiarity information: AS FOLLOWS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AS FOLLOWS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

What is listed next

Context example:

her complaints went as follows

 Context examples 

They are as follows:—Jack Smollet, of Dudding's Rents, King George's Road, Great Walworth, and Thomas Snelling, Peter Farley's Row, Guide Court, Bethnal Green.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I opened it, and read as follows: I have got your message.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was from Norwood, and ran as follows: Important fresh evidence to hand. McFarlane’s guilt definitely established. Advise you to abandon case. — LESTRADE.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These classes are defined as follows: Class III - patients with cardiac disease producing marked limitation of activity: comfortable at rest.

(New York Heart Association Class III/IV, NCI Thesaurus)

In RPS this could be implemented as follows: The version number would be an integer starting at '1' and incrementing by 1.

(Document Version Number Text, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The progress of Catherine's unhappiness from the events of the evening was as follows.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy had been over-rated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner's long letter; but now, having that to communicate which she knew would be most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote as follows: I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done, for your long, kind, satisfactory, detail of particulars; but to say the truth, I was too cross to write.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called and gave evidence as follows: ‘I had been away from home for three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the morning of last Monday, the 3rd.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This inventory I afterwards translated into English, and is, word for word, as follows: Imprimis: In the right coat-pocket of the great man-mountain (for so I interpret the words quinbus flestrin,) after the strictest search, we found only one great piece of coarse-cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your majesty’s chief room of state.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

With a few interruptions, they had kept this up for a year, and met every Saturday evening in the big garret, on which occasions the ceremonies were as follows: Three chairs were arranged in a row before a table on which was a lamp, also four white badges, with a big 'P.C.' in different colors on each, and the weekly newspaper called, The Pickwick Portfolio, to which all contributed something, while Jo, who reveled in pens and ink, was the editor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)