march
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1. march - Noun
2. march - Verb
3. March - Proper noun
Meaning
The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
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.
To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
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.
The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
The march of the human mind is slow.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Caution is not cowardice; even the ants march armed.
March sun ages women.
When in March sun and water are taking turns with water and sun, the mules end up doing the carrying.