follow vs present

follow

verb
  • To understand, to pay attention to. 

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

  • 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. 

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

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. 

present

verb
  • To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration. 

  • To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally. 

  • To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution. 

  • To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit. 

  • To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration. 

  • To give a gift or presentation to (someone). 

  • To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind. 

  • To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow. 

  • To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally. 

  • In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty. 

  • To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer. 

  • To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid. 

  • To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender). 

  • To put on, stage (a play etc.). 

  • To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom. 

  • To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth. 

  • To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.). 

  • To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire. 

  • To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour. 

noun
  • The current moment or period of time. 

  • A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions. 

  • The position of a soldier in presenting arms. 

  • The present tense. 

adj
  • Located in the immediate vicinity. 

  • Attentive; alert; focused. 

  • Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention) 

  • Relating to now, for the time being; current. 

  • Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this. 

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