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MARCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A steady advance

Example:

the march of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("march" is a kind of...):

advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression (the act of moving forward (as toward a goal))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)

Example:

we heard the sound of marching

Synonyms:

march; marching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("march" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "march"):

countermarch ((military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route)

goose step (a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high)

lockstep (a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead)

promenade (a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance)

quick march (marching at quick time)

routemarch (a long training march for troops)

Derivation:

march (walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride)

march (march in a procession)

march (force to march)

march (cause to march or go at a marching pace)

march (march in protest; take part in a demonstration)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture

Synonyms:

MArch; Master of Architecture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("MArch" is a kind of...):

master's degree (an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Genre of music written for marching

Example:

Sousa wrote the best marches

Synonyms:

march; marching music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("march" is a kind of...):

genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "march"):

martial music; military march; military music (brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade)

processional march; recessional march (a march to be played for processions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A procession of people walking together

Example:

the march went up Fifth Avenue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("march" is a kind of...):

procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "march"):

hunger march (a march of protest or demonstration by the unemployed)

Derivation:

march (walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride)

march (march in a procession)

march (force to march)

march (cause to march or go at a marching pace)

march (march in protest; take part in a demonstration)

Sense 6

Meaning:

District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area

Example:

the Welsh marches between England and Wales

Synonyms:

border district; borderland; march; marchland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("march" is a kind of...):

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Derivation:

march (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The month following February and preceding April

Synonyms:

Mar; March

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("March" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "March"):

Annunciation; Annunciation Day; Lady Day; March 25 (a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

March 2; Texas Independence Day (Texans celebrate the anniversary of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836)

March 19; Saint Joseph; St Joseph (a Christian holy day)

mid-March (the middle part of March)

March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)

Holonyms ("March" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

Example:

England marches with Scotland

Synonyms:

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "march"):

neighbor; neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

march (district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride

Example:

The soldiers marched across the border

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "march"):

troop (move or march as if in a crowd)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children march to the playground

Also:

march on (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Derivation:

marcher (walks with regular or stately step)

march (a procession of people walking together)

march (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Walk ostentatiously

Example:

She parades her new husband around town

Synonyms:

exhibit; march; parade

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

walk (make walk)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

March in a procession

Example:

They processed into the dining room

Synonyms:

march; process

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "march"):

file (proceed in line)

parade; promenade; troop (march in a procession)

goose step (march in a military fashion)

countermarch (march back along the same way)

debouch; march out (march out (as from a defile) into open ground)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children march to the playground

Derivation:

march (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind))

march (a procession of people walking together)

marching (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Force to march

Example:

The Japanese marched their prisoners through Manchuria

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

walk (accompany or escort)

Cause:

march (walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "march"):

frogmarch (march a person against his will by any method)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to march the prisoners

Derivation:

march (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind))

march (a procession of people walking together)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cause to march or go at a marching pace

Example:

They marched the mules into the desert

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

walk (make walk)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The horses march across the field

Derivation:

march (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind))

march (a procession of people walking together)

Sense 7

Meaning:

March in protest; take part in a demonstration

Example:

Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle

Synonyms:

demonstrate; march

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "march" is one way to...):

dissent; protest; resist (express opposition through action or words)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "march"):

picket (serve as pickets or post pickets)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

march (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind))

march (a procession of people walking together)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Here comes his squire, however, and we shall hear what strange fortune hath brought him over the marches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He simply swung his pack upon his back and continued upon his march.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, sir, I shall be ready when the order to march comes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This gives the T cells marching orders to look for that retinal protein and attack it.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

The ass, being the tallest of the company, marched up to the window and peeped in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He accepted Destiny, marched hand in hand with it, and coolly measured the stroke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For an hour he marched, as though puzzled, and then, through Karduk's mouth, he said to Negore: How didst thou know the way was clear when thou didst look so briefly upon it?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The next morning at sun-rise we continued our march, and arrived within two hundred yards of the city gates about noon.

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

It is like the dead-march of a gnat amid the trumpeting of elephants and the roaring of lions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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