crowd vs follow

crowd

verb
  • To press forward; to advance by pushing. 

  • To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. 

  • To press together or collect in numbers 

  • To push, to press, to shove. 

  • To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. 

  • To fill by pressing or thronging together 

  • To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. 

  • To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. 

noun
  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. 

  • A fiddle. 

  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. 

  • The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. 

  • Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 

follow

verb
  • To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. 

  • To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling. 

  • To understand, to pay attention to. 

  • To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. 

  • To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc). 

  • To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). 

  • To be a logical consequence of something. 

  • To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person. 

  • To go or come after in a sequence. 

noun
  • In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. 

  • The act of following another user's online activity. 

How often have the words crowd and follow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )