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Newguest Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Follow through
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Suppose you're a baseball pitcher, and you have a ball in your hand. As you wind up to throw the ball, a person who can integrate all the elements involved (position, speed, height, point of release, and so forth) can project a probability of where the ball will fly if all the calculations follow through and the ball is thrown.
--- Does "follow through" mean "finished"? When all the calculations are finished.
Suppose you're a baseball pitcher, and you have a ball in your hand. As you wind up to throw the ball, a person who can integrate all the elements involved (position, speed, height, point of release, and so forth) can project a probability of where the ball will fly if all the calculations follow through and the ball is thrown.
--- Does "follow through" mean "finished"? When all the calculations are finished.
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In my limited knowledge of sports, I think that "follow-through" would include all the actions that follow the release of the ball. I'm told that follow-through is important in certain situations: after the release of the bowling ball as it begins its journey down the lane; the upswing of a pianist's hands when finishing a phrase. I'm not sure it's really important, but it certainly makes the action seem more graceful in most cases.
- In my limited knowledge of sports, I think that "follow-through" would include all the actions that follow the release of the ball.
- I'm told that follow-through is important in certain situations: after the release of the bowling ball as it begins its journey down the lane; the upswing of a pianist's hands when finishing a phrase.
- I'm not sure it's really important, but it certainly makes the action seem more graceful in most cases.
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In my limited knowledge of sports, I think that "follow-through" would include all the actions that follow the release of the ball. I'm told that follow-through is important in certain situations:
after the release of the bowling ball as it begins its journey down the lane; the upswing of a pianist's hands when finishing a phrase.
I'm not sure it's really important, but it cert
after the release of the bowling ball as it begins its journey down the lane; the upswing of a pianist's hands when finishing a phrase.
I'm not sure it's really important, but it cert
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It is not very clear to me. I most naturally understand "follow through" to mean that the calculations proceed to be realised as the ball flies along its trajectory. However, the sentence as a whole is worded as if the calculations "follow through" before the ball is thrown. I don't know in what sense of "follow through" that would work. I also don't understand why the word "if" was chosen
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Mr Wordy However, the sentence as a whole is worded as if the calculations "follow through" before the ball is thrown.
Yes, it's before not after.
I take it to mean that if all calculations done by the given person will prove to be right (follow through) he/she will know how/where etc. the ball will fly before it is thrown.
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NewguestYes, it's before not after.Yes, I believe that this is the sort of meaning the author had in mind. I still don't understand how the calculations can prove to be right
I take it to mean that if all calculations done by the given person will prove to be right (follow through) he/she will know how/where etc. the ball will fly before it is thrown.
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