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march

1  [mahrch]
Use march in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
2. to walk in a stately, deliberate manner.
3. to go forward; advance; proceed: Time marches on.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cause to march.
–noun
5. the act or course of marching.
6. the distance covered in a single period of marching.
7. advance; progress; forward movement: the march of science.
8. a piece of music with a rhythm suited to accompany marching.
—Idioms
9. march on, to march toward, as in protest or in preparation for confrontation or battle: The angry mob marched on the Bastille.
10. on the march, moving ahead; progressing; advancing: Automation is on the march.
11. steal a march on, to gain an advantage over, esp. secretly or slyly.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME marchen < MF march(i)er, OF marchier to tread, move < Frankish *markōn presumably, to mark, pace out (a boundary); see mark 1

march

2  [mahrch]
–noun
1. a tract of land along a border of a country; frontier.
2. marches, the border districts between England and Scotland, or England and Wales.
–verb (used without object)
3. to touch at the border; border.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME marche < AF, OF < Gmc; cf. OE gemearc, Goth marka boundary; see mark 1

March

  [mahrch]
–noun
the third month of the year, containing 31 days. Abbreviation: Mar.
Origin:
bef. 1050; ME March(e) < AF Marche; r. OE Martius < L, short for Mārtius mēnsis month of Mars (Mārti-, s. of Mārs + -us adj. suffix)

March

  [mahrch for 1–3; mahrkh for 4]
–noun
1. Francis Andrew, 1825–1911, U.S. philologist and lexicographer.
2. Fredric (Frederick McIntyre Bickel), 1897–1975, U.S. actor.
3. Pey⋅ton Con⋅way  [peyt-n kon-wey] , 1864–1955, U.S. army officer (son of Francis Andrew March).
4. German name of the Morava.

March.

 
Marchioness.

M.Arch.

 
Master of Architecture.

Mo⋅ra⋅va

  [Czech, Serbo-Croatian. maw-rah-vah]
–noun
1. German, March. a river in central Europe, flowing S from NE Czech Republic, along part of the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Slovakia and Austria, into the Danube W of Bratislava. 240 mi. (385 km) long.
2. a river in E Yugoslavia, flowing N to the Danube. 134 mi. (216 km) long.
3. Czech name of Moravia.
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march 1   (märch)   
v.   marched, march·ing, march·es

v.   intr.
    1. To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.
    2. To begin to move in such a manner: The troops will march at dawn.
    3. To proceed directly and purposefully: marched in and demanded to see the manager.
    4. To progress steadily onward; advance: Time marches on.
    1. To proceed directly and purposefully: marched in and demanded to see the manager.
    2. To progress steadily onward; advance: Time marches on.
  3. To be arranged in an orderly fashion that suggests steady rhythmical progression.
  4. To participate in an organized walk, as for a public cause.
v.   tr.
  1. To cause to move or otherwise progress in a steady rhythmical manner: march soldiers into battle; marched us off to the dentist.
  2. To traverse by progressing steadily and rhythmically: They marched the route in a day.
n.  
  1. The act of marching, especially:
    1. The steady forward movement of a body of troops.
    2. A long tiring journey on foot.
  2. Steady forward movement or progression: the march of time.
  3. A regulated pace: quick march; slow march.
  4. The distance covered within a certain period of time by moving or progressing steadily and rhythmically: a week's march away.
  5. Music A composition in regularly accented, usually duple meter that is appropriate to accompany marching.
  6. An organized walk or procession by a group of people for a specific cause or issue.

[Middle English marchen, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, to mark out; see merg- in Indo-European roots.]
march 2   (märch)   
n.  
  1. The border or boundary of a country or an area of land; a frontier.
  2. A tract of land bordering on two countries and claimed by both.
intr.v.   marched, march·ing, march·es
To have a common boundary: England marches with Scotland.

[Middle English, from Old French marche, of Germanic origin; see merg- in Indo-European roots.]
March   (märch)   
n.   Abbr. Mar.
The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. See Table at calendar.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin Mārtius (mēnsis), (month) of Mars, from Mārs, Mārt-, Mars.]
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March

March\, n. [L. Martius mensis Mars'month fr. Martius belonging to Mars, the god of war: cf. F. mars. Cf. Martial.] The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. --Bryant.

As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. --Wright.

March

March\, n. [OE. marche, F. marche; of German origin; cf. OHG. marcha, G. mark, akin to OS. marka, AS. mearc, Goth. marka, L. margo edge, border, margin, and possibly to E. mark a sign. [root]106. Cf. Margin, Margrave, Marque, Marquis.] A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.

Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland. --Fuller.

Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles. --Tennyson.

March

March\, v. i. [Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d March.] To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.]

That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie. --Gower.

To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.

March

March\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marched; p. pr. & vb. n. Marching.] [F. marcher, in OF. also, to tread, prob. fr. L. marcus hammer. Cf. Mortar.]

1. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily. --Shak.

2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

March

March\, v. t. TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

March them again in fair array. --Prior.

March

March\, n. [F. marche.]

1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march. --Bacon.

2. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them. --Shak.

This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs. --Buckle.

3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

The drums presently striking up a march. --Knolles.

To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.
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Language Translation for : march
Spanish: marzo,
German: der März,
Japanese: ３月
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march  (v.)
c.1410, from M.Fr. marcher "to march, walk," from O.Fr. marchier "to stride, march," originally "to trample," perhaps from Frank. *markon (from source of obsolete M.E. march (n.) "borderland," (see march (n.)). Or possibly from Gallo-Roman *marcare, from L. marcus "hammer," via notion of "tramping the feet." Noun meaning "act of marching" is from 1590. The musical sense first attested 1572, from notion of "rhythmic drumbeat" for marching. Marching band is attested from 1955.

march  (n.)
(obs.) "boundary," c.1290 (in ref. to the borderlands beside Wales, rendering O.E. Mercia), from O.Fr. marche "boundary, frontier," from Frank. *marka (cf. O.H.G. marchon "to mark out, delimit," Ger. Mark "boundary;" see mark (1)).

March 
c.1200, from Anglo-Fr. marche, from O.Fr. marz, from L. Martius (mensis) "(month) of Mars," from Mars (gen. Martis). Replaced O.E. hreðmonaþ, of uncertain meaning, perhaps from hræd "quick, nimble, ready, active, alert, prompt." For March hare, proverbial type of madness, see mad.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: march
Pronunciation: 'märch
Function: noun
: the progression of epileptic activity through the motor centers of the cerebral cortex that ismanifested in localized convulsions in first one and then an adjacent part of the body march of convulsions>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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march

In addition to the idiom beginning with march, also see steal a march on.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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March

third month of the Gregorian calendar. It was named after Mars, the Roman god of war. Originally, March was the first month of the Roman calendar.

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