march1
/mɑːtʃ
/- Thousands of soldiers were walking around, marching, much like in the present day military manner.
- Volunteers from this military body now marched to Carthage and stormed the jail.
- Tens of thousands marched with Spartacus, and a succession of Roman armies were crushed.
Synonyms
- We were approximately sixty yards from the front door - the main entrance when a woman was coming towards - she was marching very quickly towards us.
- I exited the elevator quickly, marching out to the crowded street.
- She quickly turned and began marching towards her apartment building, now only a block away.
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- He took her firmly by the arm and marched her to off toward the command deck.
- When he was asked to hand it back, he told the victim he would only do so in return for money and marched him to a cash point machine where he was forced to withdraw money before handing it back.
- He then marched her to a bank and forced her to withdraw 500 from her savings.
- Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession.
- Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses.
- The protestors originally attempted to march on the US Embassy but heavily-armed police blocked their way.
- We all sit here, watching and trying to make sense of it all, as Time marches by inexorably…
- Huygens' ground track marches inexorably to the east, though the descent is now getting much steeper.
- Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration.
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- They aim to reach the Pole in 65 days, by which time they will have covered twice the distance trekked by Hadow in his march to the North Pole.
- For instance, as they begin their march, the mood in the army of Shalya, one of the first to start to join the war, is one of celebration.
- The afternoon's celebrations included a march down to the ferry launching site, the walking group led by piper Bill Jackson.
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- In the second movement - the funeral march - musical iconography impinges on performance.
- Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death.
- With their use of tone rows and dense counterpoint these pieces should dispel any ideas that Ives's music is just about jaunty marches and musical borrowings.
- He was also involved in the policing of presidential and Royal visits, marches and sectarian rioting.
- The curtains flapping from the broken windows led to rumours of white flags and peace marches.
- At one point, the film follows several of the tour's dancers watching a march by the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
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- It understands rile future not as simply a repetition of today or as the inevitable march of progress.
- This information was celebrated by the media as the inevitable forward march of progress.
- As the march of history progresses, however, traditions change.
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Phrases
march to (the beat of) a different tune (or drummer)
on the march
Origin
Late Middle English: from French marcher 'to walk' (earlier 'to trample'), of uncertain origin.
There are three English words march, if you include March. The march with the sense ‘to walk in a military manner’ came from French marcher ‘to walk’ in the late Middle Ages. If you march to a different tune you consciously adopt a different approach or attitude to the majority of people. The variant march to a different drummer was inspired by an observation from the 19th-century US essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau: ‘If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.’
Another march means ‘the border or frontier of a country’, now found mainly in the geographical term the Marches, used for the area of land on the border of England and Wales, such as the counties of Shropshire and Monmouthshire. It too came from French, but is probably related to mark, from the idea of a boundary marker.
The month is named after Mars, the Roman god of war, and was originally the first month of the Roman calendar. Weather lore from the early 17th century tells us that March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb—traditionally the weather is wild at the beginning of March, but fair and settled by the end. The name of the god Mars is also the source of martial (Late Middle English), ‘relating to fighting or war’, which entered English in the late Middle Ages. The martial arts, sports such as judo, karate, and kendo, originated in Japan, China, and Korea and first came to European attention in the late 19th century, though the general term martial arts is not recorded until 1920. See also mad
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march2
/mɑːtʃ/- This border region, the Marches, is a stretch of pasture-land much broken by hills, woods, and twisting rivers.
- Upon the death of Walter de Lacy in 1241 his two granddaughters became heiresses to his lands and lordships in England, the Welsh Marches, and Ireland.
- Educated at Shrewsbury (his father being lord president of the Council in the Marches of Wales) and at Christ Church, Oxford, he was devoted to study.
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Origin
Middle English: from Old French marche (noun), marchir (verb), of Germanic origin; related to mark1.
March3
/mɑːtʃ/- Waiting times are to be cut to six months by March and just three months the following year.
- I gave quite a detailed explanation of pension credit in my column in the March issue.
- By March last year almost every city and many small towns had set up local coalitions.
Origin
Middle English: from an Old French dialect variant of marz, from Latin Martius (mensis) '(month) of Mars'.