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march¹

verb mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ

1no object, usually with adverbial of direction Walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread.
thousands marched behind the coffin
Example sentencesExamples
- The Spartans attempted a military response, and marched against the leading revolutionary state, Mantinea.
- We both went to schools where people marched around as military cadets.
- Tens of thousands marched with Spartacus, and a succession of Roman armies were crushed.
- Dressed in his formal uniform, he marched in precise military style to the Royal Palace.
- No more marching in to military music, no women teachers, new school caps with a badge in yellow which we raised when we met teachers out of school bounds.
- We hear the shouts of the military squadron marching up the hills.
- They marched out in regular formation, peeling off two by two at each main street to patrol their beats on foot.
- Lord Jonathan entered the castle along with the other knights and soldiers who marched in unison behind them.
- The band has been invited to march in the annual Military and Veterans Parade in Weymouth on June 20.
- Thousands of soldiers were walking around, marching, much like in the present day military manner.
- I remember marching behind the band on my debut against Cork and saying to myself, ‘What am I doing here?’
- She talked off how the military marched around the streets and how unfairly they treated the people.
- All had marched at least a thousand miles, some much more.
- Volunteers from this military body now marched to Carthage and stormed the jail.
- When Emmet first heard this song he is reputed to have said ‘oh that I were at the head of twenty thousand men marching to that air’.
- Kids were forced to rise before dawn, perform rigorous exercises, and march like soldiers.
- Military men marched in a circular review, saluting Kim.
- Below them, the Imperial Army marched along the road, plumes of smoke rising from the cratered remains of the Star encampments.
- The soldiers then marched out of the palace gates to the delight of the crowds.
- Private military personnel marched with the US Army first into Somalia, then Bosnia, and Kosovo.
Synonyms
stride, walk, troop, step, pace, tread
footslog, slog, tramp, hike, trudge
parade, file, process, promenade
British informal yomp
1. 1.1 Walk quickly and with determination.
  without a word she marched from the room
  Example sentencesExamples
  I thought I saw Eric flush, but he marched off too quickly for me to be certain.
  He struggled to keep up with her as she marched along the road.
  Without saying a word he marched right out of the park leaving Rebecca to stare at him.
  With a determined step she marched purposely toward the blackened doorway.
  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.
  She started to walk away, only to march back determinedly less than five seconds later.
  I marched determinedly to my homeroom class and saw Terry at the wall next to the door.
  Jason-Steve smiled as Evan marched with a determined stance to find the phone.
  He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window.
  If all else fails, determinedly march up to onlookers with camera in hand.
  I exited the elevator quickly, marching out to the crowded street.
  Licking my lips at the wondrous prospect of a day jam-packed with data entry madness, I marched onwards determinedly.
  She quickly turned and began marching towards her apartment building, now only a block away.
  Saturday morning came, and we quickly marched out the door and towards the Metro stop.
  At each obstacle she had held her head high and marched past it, determined to defeat the impossible.
  I turned around and started marching back our room, confident that Charles would never bug me again.
  She clenched her fists and marched back to her room without a word.
  She marches into the training room where the Product Manager is giving a training session.
  With these words, Simone marched forward with anger filling inside her and her two sisters trailing behind.
  She nodded the moment I saw Dr. Kay enter the room and come marching over to us.
  Synonyms
  stalk, strut, stride, flounce, storm, stomp, sweep, swagger
2. 1.2with object and adverbial of direction Force (someone) to walk somewhere quickly.
  she gripped Rachel's arm and marched her through the door
  Example sentencesExamples
  Shortly after this a man was marched back into the store and put into a small staff only room, guarded by a security guard and one of the beefier shop boys.
  A parental search party found us shivering and cowering in the scrub and marched us back to civilisation.
  His head kept twisting back anxiously as they marched him out of the house, barefoot.
  He doesn't let go of my arm, however, and marches me roughly towards the house.
  Wendy grabbed a ringleader's coat and marched him out of the door.
  Two further men acting as witnesses approached the offender, seemingly disgusted with his actions, and marched him off down the street.
  Anyway, on the time, I was marched in before the court-martial and they were all sitting there at the table, all the officers.
  And then he marched Patrick back into the store and we never saw our skateboard stealing friend again.
  Both officers grabbed him by the arms in a thumb lock and marched him out of the shop past the customers.
  He then marched her to a bank and forced her to withdraw 500 from her savings.
  They burst into the farmer's house and when they saw the eldest son, believing him to be the thief, they chained him and marched him to the palace.
  The employees were marched into the walk-in freezer at gunpoint and locked inside.
  Yes, we were marched off to the local cinema to see that.
  We were marched back onto the train and laughed at - quite demoralising, really.
  He marched me quickly back to our allocated area and took me severely in waltz position.
  He took her firmly by the arm and marched her to off toward the command deck.
  The Nazis who ran the camp tried to hide their crimes by marching their victims away.
  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.
  So he goes after the teenagers, and grabs one in a shop, marching him outside.
  Then she flung a arm around his neck, making him bend, and marched him down the stairs.
3. 1.3 Walk along public roads in an organized procession as a form of protest.
  unemployed workers marched from Jarrow to London
  they planned to march on Baton Rouge
  Example sentencesExamples
  On May 29 health care workers are expected to carry out a nine-hour strike and march on the health ministry.
  Rabbo joined around 1000 demonstrators as they marched along the road that was dug up by Israeli soldiers last week.
  The overtures did not divert tens of thousands from marching against the government.
  Thousands of protestors attempted to march on the US embassy in Beirut, but were beaten back by police using tear gas and truncheons.
  The Chartists called a rally and 100,000 workers turned up to march on the government.
  More than 150 public service workers marched on Bolton Town Hall during their one day strike.
  The coca farmers, who had yet to join the protests, indicated that they would march on La Paz and block the roads.
  Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession.
  Hundreds of victims of Britain's A-bomb tests are to march on Parliament today in what they say is their best chance ever to secure compensation.
  Tens of thousands marched in the streets, and masked Hamas militants pledged revenge.
  Tens of thousands also marched in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama.
  Two hundred immigrants had marched along Devon, protesting the new policy.
  The protestors originally attempted to march on the US Embassy but heavily-armed police blocked their way.
  Certainly the tens of thousands marching in Edinburgh are not there just because some pop star told them it was going to be fun.
  I was aware that the strikers were going to march on Parliament before the end of the week.
  Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses.
  Hundreds of York City fans were expected to march on Bootham Crescent today in a show of solidarity for the threatened football club.
  Despite her support, about 300 protesters tried to march on the US embassy in the capital, Manila.
  But at the moment when city government is ready to make a move, they choose to march on the scene tomorrow in their own protest.
4. 1.4 (of something abstract) proceed or advance inexorably.
  time marches on
  Example sentencesExamples
  Together, however, they are inexorably marching toward their fourth league title.
  We now march inexorably toward war with Iraq, and to fight that war, we will have to call upon many soldiers.
  We all sit here, watching and trying to make sense of it all, as Time marches by inexorably…
  Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration.
  Perhaps music wasn't marching inexorably to dodecaphonic heaven after all.
  Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinaine in a choral sequence that marches inexorably.
  The only reason why the economy continues to march ahead is on account of the positive flow of funding from the rest of the world.
  Huygens' ground track marches inexorably to the east, though the descent is now getting much steeper.
  Synonyms
  move forward, advance, progress, forge ahead, make headway, go on, continue on, roll on, develop, evolve

noun mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ

1An act or instance of marching.
the relieving force was more than a day's march away
Example sentencesExamples
- It was from here, that 28,000 of the prisoners were taken, towards the end of the War, on what came to be known, as the death marches.
- Route marches, drill and shooting practice helped mould this assortment of keen amateurs filled with patriotic pride into a professional fighting force.
- 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.
- The afternoon's celebrations included a march down to the ferry launching site, the walking group led by piper Bill Jackson.
- 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 twin counterpoint battles of Imphal and Kohima at Burma's gateway to India comprised long marches through dense jungles by both sides.
- The trumpet shaped flowers are widely accepted as being a symbol of the Orange Order, and members wear the lily with pride on their sashes during marches.
- It's important to have a plan for that time, but also to break the march into manageable pieces.
- The travel was slow and easy, though the men kept a steady rhythm in their march, their minds dwelling on their families back home.
Synonyms
hike, trek, tramp, slog, footslog, walk
route march, forced march
British informal yomp
1. 1.1 A piece of music composed to accompany marching or with a rhythm suggestive of marching.
  he began to hum a funeral march
  Example sentencesExamples
  Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death.
  I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though!
  There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march.
  I may have listened to the slow movement funeral march too many times to really hear it.
  Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march.
  It is now a permanent part of classical popular music, in the same way as the waltzes of Strauss or the marches of Sousa.
  The rhythm isn't really a waltz or a march, but rather a stumbling sort of gait, indicative of what was to come in the next few years.
  The band's repertoire includes marches and hymns, music from the shows, orchestral music and popular music.
  The orchestra ended its current tune, and instantly began a mournful march.
  Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss.
  My short program music is a medley of marches by John Philip Sousa.
  My only thought about the march so far is that it's not a march in the direct Mahlerian sense.
  Instead the music becomes a jaunty march, of the sort that would have been associated with the armies of revolutionary France.
  One hears the strong link to the brass band marches of early New Orleans.
  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 is a composer of a number of military marches and made arrangements of traditional Turkish songs.
  I'm listening to some of the Nazi marches Arnie used to listen to.
  It will include waltzes, marches, operetta, Neapolitan songs and Irish classics.
  In the second movement - the funeral march - musical iconography impinges on performance.
  The Normandy Band of the Queen's Division provided a full range of music from marches to the stirring Post Horn Gallop.
2. 1.2 A procession organized as a protest.
  a protest march
  Example sentencesExamples
  The methods they used to advance their case were various: petitions, representations, street marches and fasts.
  He was also involved in the policing of presidential and Royal visits, marches and sectarian rioting.
  The often violent reactions of the government to civil rights marches is no less an example of right wing violence.
  Early predictions indicate that the marches look set to become by far the largest demonstration of trade union muscle in decades.
  A police officer caught on video repeatedly bashing a protester walking, just walking, in the front line of a march.
  There would be no threats of boycotts; there would be no marches; there would be no high-toned talk.
  He brings a deep commitment to civil rights, nurtured in marches in Mississippi while a college student.
  I hope there will be marches and prayers for peace until the threat of war recedes.
  This one pops up in pamphlet after pamphlet at leftist marches and gatherings; it is taught to many black college students.
  They not to have a glimmer of understanding that they live in a democracy and whether we go to war is decided ultimately by parliament not by marches on the street or strongly held opinions.
  The crackdown on street marches was also very controversial.
  And, unlike other marches, this one will also propose solutions, rather than simply ranting against the war machine.
  I will still go on the anti-war marches, but I wonder if I will ever return to my local anti-war comrades - I have drifted from them too.
  The big anti-war marches encapsulated a cynical mood and a sense of disengagement - and these are hardly ideal sentiments on which to build a mass movement.
  At one point, the film follows several of the tour's dancers watching a march by the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
  Most of the marches in Wellington go to parliament.
  I wanna stand up for my rights, attend marches, and create bills of rights without being seen as a troublemaker.
  Indeed, they used to hold marches against them.
  Last weekend, the left held large antiwar marches in Washington, San Francisco and elsewhere.
  The curtains flapping from the broken windows led to rumours of white flags and peace marches.
  Synonyms
  parade, procession, march past, promenade, cortège
  demonstration, protest
  informal demo
  Indian morcha
3. 1.3in singular The steady and inevitable development or progress of something.
  the march of history
  Example sentencesExamples
  To say that we should merely accept it as inevitable, as part of the march of history, as an inescapable part of the zeitgeist, is to accept descent into degradation.
  So the Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order and advance the march toward socialism.
  But so inevitable is the march of events that this is all it seems, a tweak.
  That's why the steady march toward a more liberal newsroom is so puzzling.
  It understands rile future not as simply a repetition of today or as the inevitable march of progress.
  Whatever goes wrong in our lives or the world, the march of progress continues regardless.
  Which is possibly a good reason why it's taken longer for gays to progress in the march towards equality.
  Physics Today will continue to follow the progress of fusion's march toward maturity.
  Many others have written about New Zealand history as though the steady march forward by the State equated with progress.
  It seems as inevitable as the relentless march of time.
  Every few centuries, the steady march of change meets a discontinuity, and history hinges on that moment.
  The steady march of technological advancement should solve that problem, however.
  History is certainly not a rational process nor is it a progressive march towards a harmonious consummation.
  However, instead of a steady march of discovery and triumph, reason has led us to believe there are limits to achievement.
  Much of his affection for the South stemmed from his belief that it was a haven from the onward march of modern industrial progress.
  Even the relentless march of performance progress has lost its edge, with the increasing bland commercialisation of the enthusiast market.
  This information was celebrated by the media as the inevitable forward march of progress.
  Why is the steady march of science and technology in these areas a problem?
  Is the will so powerful as to counter the onward march of something inevitable?
  As the march of history progresses, however, traditions change.
  Synonyms
  progress, advance, progression, passage, continuance, development, evolution, headway

Phrases

march to (the beat of) a different tune (or drummer)

informal Consciously adopt a different approach or attitude to the majority of people.
he has always marched to a different tune but this time his perversity may be his undoing
Example sentencesExamples
- Admiral Rickover, Peter Drucker, and Georges Doriot always marched to a different drummer and got the acclaim of the crowd.
- Since his college days, Rice has been seen as someone who marched to the beat of a different drummer.
- During the go-go days of the late 1990s, when many business thinkers found themselves seduced by the idea that everything is new in the new economy, Jim Collins marched to a different drummer.
- A professional woman in her 50s said she feels almost ‘invisible’ a lot of the time and that the better jobs or promotions seem to go to those in her company that don't march to a different drummer.
- Now Michael Deaver authors a personal portrait of the former president he says has always marched to a different drummer.
- ‘He marched to a different drummer,’ says his colleague Becker.
- Unless you enjoy marching to a different drummer, stick with right betting, avoid wrong betting, and join the tribe.
- ‘When I walked the picket lines, I really believed that we, as a people, marched to the beat of a different drummer,’ Lyons says.
- Those who want exegetical help in the interpretation of a specific text will discover that this commentary marches to a different drummer.
- Lennon is believed to favour a return to Congress and is viewed as a moderate, but the overwhelming message from the conference of over 400 delegates was that the general secretary is marching to a different tune from his troops.

on the march

1Marching.
the army was on the march at last
Example sentencesExamples
- Even most of the meat he had eaten on the march with Cadona's army was cooked or dry.
- The battle began accidentally when the two armies encountered each other on the march at the pass of Cynoscephalae.
- It is a stunning, impressive picture that captures the movement of an army on the march, as well as the brooding conditions they face almost as an active element in the conflict.
- Another way Sweden found to reduce her war costs was to train her army to live off of the land thereby reducing the supply issue for an army on the march.
- The Kingdom of Jerusalem still hung by a thread and armies were on the march that spring.
- Their job was to ensure no Moslem army should advance suddenly and catch Charles on the march.
- They reached the bottom of the hill, and two-thirds of the country was empty, as the orcs had gone on the march to meet Aragorn's army.
- Armies were on the march, battles were being fought and lost, and regimes became acutely conscious of their vulnerability.
- The pressure of that blank metal stare chilled Martel's soul, as if he were watching distant, marauding armies on the march.
- It was like an army on the march when this happened.
1. 1.1Making progress.
  United are on the march again
  Example sentencesExamples
  The government there has a vested interest in being seen to be hardline: the right-wing is on the march and on the rise in Belgium, causing considerable unease in Brussels.
  Partick Thistle are joint top of the Second Division just behind Clydebank on goal difference and John Lambie is convincing friend and foe alike that the Firhill side are on the march once more.
  But the gospel according to Mel betrays a peculiarly unsophisticated take on the key event in the Christian tradition, and casts doubt on the idea that religion is on the march.
  Let us be in no doubt that the US military industrial complex is off the leash and on the march, bankrolling both Republicans and Democrats.
  Military style has been on the march for a while now, but this season, army attire will push its way to the fashion front.
  That superb strike was as good a note as any to sign off on, leaving everyone who saw the performance half-thinking of a quick dash to the bookies before word got out that Towers are on the march.
  Freedom has always been on the march in this country.
  Communism was on the march in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola.
  Because of the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, two terror regimes are gone forever, freedom is on the march, and America is more secure.
  This time last year, when Celtic were engaged in a heroic, though ultimately futile, Champions League campaign, O'Neill's reputation was 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

Rhymes

arch, larch, parch, starch

march²

plural noun mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ

Marches

1An area of land on the border between two countries or territories, especially between England and Wales or (formerly) England and Scotland.
the Welsh Marches
Example sentencesExamples
- Similarly, Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, points out that in AD1200 Britain was so warm that the Normans made wine in the Welsh Marches.
- The border Marches were renamed the Middle Shires and the border laws replaced with ‘Jeddart Justice’, where summary executions were common.
- The Despensers were engaged in empire-building in the Welsh Marches, Roger's own part of the world.
- 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.
- He was sent with his mother to Ludlow in 1473 to be titular ruler of Wales and the Welsh Marches, staying there for much of the rest of his father's reign.
- West of the Severn valley and the north midland plain is the Welsh Marches, classic hill and vale country with small areas of upland separated by deeply incised valleys.
- The strength of Chester's connections with Liverpool and with Wales and the Marches contrasts with the relative weakness of those to the east and south-east.
- Set on the Welsh Marches beneath Lancashire, its name comes from the Latin for Place of the Legions.
- Wroxeter's main street was formed by the road running north-south along the Welsh Marches, linking the fortresses of Caerleon and Chester.
- The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere.
- This border region, the Marches, is a stretch of pasture-land much broken by hills, woods, and twisting rivers.
- 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.
- With landed influence now increasingly concentrated in crown hands, the council of Arthur, prince of Wales, at Ludlow, was given greater powers to enforce law and order in the Welsh Marches and English border shires.
Synonyms
borders, boundaries, borderlands, frontiers, limits, confines
historical marchlands
1. 1.1the Marches
  dated name for Marche

verb mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ

[no object]march with

(of a country, territory, or estate) have a common frontier with.
his estate marches with yours

Origin

Middle English: from Old French marche (noun), marchir (verb), of Germanic origin; related to mark¹.

March³

noun mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ

The third month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of spring.
the work was completed in March
as modifier the March issue of the magazine
Example sentencesExamples
- The best time to prune a fig bush is late February or early March, while it is still dormant.
- Work on the premises is set to begin next month with a view to a grand opening in March or April next year.
- February and March are the time of year that the area's hare population is most visible.
- Whale sharks pass by in late March and early April and the occasional dugong has been seen.
- Work on the site is due to begin at the end of the month and is expected to be completed at the end of March next year.
- In March he was sentenced on both counts to concurrent terms of life imprisonment.
- We do know, however, that it will be in February or March next year at the earliest.
- In March we launched our new conference guide and the response so far has been excellent.
- I gave quite a detailed explanation of pension credit in my column in the March issue.
- Both said that they expected talks would be finished and a deal would be on the table by March or April.
- I downloaded my email and found the stats for accesses to this site for the month of March.
- He is going to be on holiday for a week but will be in a position to file the Report by the 28th March.
- In March it gave a final warning that if things did not improve it would consider legal action.
- She says he invited her to his hotel room and that the pair met again the following March in Leeds.
- There was a period between October and March when at times we were seven to eight short.
- They flower from March to June and disperse mature seeds from May to July in the second year.
- Whale shark season is in March and April, though you could get lucky at any time of year.
- Waiting times are to be cut to six months by March and just three months the following year.
- In March, Blair asked him to talk the unions out of a damaging strike ahead of the election.
- 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'.

march¹

verbmärCHmɑrtʃ

1no object, usually with adverbial of direction Walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread.
three companies of soldiers marched around the field
Example sentencesExamples
- Tens of thousands marched with Spartacus, and a succession of Roman armies were crushed.
- Kids were forced to rise before dawn, perform rigorous exercises, and march like soldiers.
- No more marching in to military music, no women teachers, new school caps with a badge in yellow which we raised when we met teachers out of school bounds.
- Below them, the Imperial Army marched along the road, plumes of smoke rising from the cratered remains of the Star encampments.
- We hear the shouts of the military squadron marching up the hills.
- They marched out in regular formation, peeling off two by two at each main street to patrol their beats on foot.
- All had marched at least a thousand miles, some much more.
- The soldiers then marched out of the palace gates to the delight of the crowds.
- Lord Jonathan entered the castle along with the other knights and soldiers who marched in unison behind them.
- Volunteers from this military body now marched to Carthage and stormed the jail.
- Dressed in his formal uniform, he marched in precise military style to the Royal Palace.
- When Emmet first heard this song he is reputed to have said ‘oh that I were at the head of twenty thousand men marching to that air’.
- She talked off how the military marched around the streets and how unfairly they treated the people.
- The Spartans attempted a military response, and marched against the leading revolutionary state, Mantinea.
- We both went to schools where people marched around as military cadets.
- Private military personnel marched with the US Army first into Somalia, then Bosnia, and Kosovo.
- Thousands of soldiers were walking around, marching, much like in the present day military manner.
- Military men marched in a circular review, saluting Kim.
- The band has been invited to march in the annual Military and Veterans Parade in Weymouth on June 20.
- I remember marching behind the band on my debut against Cork and saying to myself, ‘What am I doing here?’
Synonyms
stride, walk, troop, step, pace, tread
1. 1.1 Walk or proceed quickly and with determination.
  without a word she marched from the room
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without saying a word he marched right out of the park leaving Rebecca to stare at him.
  She clenched her fists and marched back to her room without a word.
  I marched determinedly to my homeroom class and saw Terry at the wall next to the door.
  Saturday morning came, and we quickly marched out the door and towards the Metro stop.
  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.
  Licking my lips at the wondrous prospect of a day jam-packed with data entry madness, I marched onwards determinedly.
  She nodded the moment I saw Dr. Kay enter the room and come marching over to us.
  She marches into the training room where the Product Manager is giving a training session.
  She started to walk away, only to march back determinedly less than five seconds later.
  He struggled to keep up with her as she marched along the road.
  I thought I saw Eric flush, but he marched off too quickly for me to be certain.
  She quickly turned and began marching towards her apartment building, now only a block away.
  With a determined step she marched purposely toward the blackened doorway.
  With these words, Simone marched forward with anger filling inside her and her two sisters trailing behind.
  Jason-Steve smiled as Evan marched with a determined stance to find the phone.
  If all else fails, determinedly march up to onlookers with camera in hand.
  At each obstacle she had held her head high and marched past it, determined to defeat the impossible.
  He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window.
  I turned around and started marching back our room, confident that Charles would never bug me again.
  Synonyms
  stalk, strut, stride, flounce, storm, stomp, sweep, swagger
2. 1.2with object and adverbial of direction Force (someone) to walk somewhere quickly.
  she gripped Rachel's arm and marched her out through the doors
  Example sentencesExamples
  He marched me quickly back to our allocated area and took me severely in waltz position.
  A parental search party found us shivering and cowering in the scrub and marched us back to civilisation.
  Yes, we were marched off to the local cinema to see that.
  The Nazis who ran the camp tried to hide their crimes by marching their victims away.
  Wendy grabbed a ringleader's coat and marched him out of the door.
  Both officers grabbed him by the arms in a thumb lock and marched him out of the shop past the customers.
  He then marched her to a bank and forced her to withdraw 500 from her savings.
  Shortly after this a man was marched back into the store and put into a small staff only room, guarded by a security guard and one of the beefier shop boys.
  He doesn't let go of my arm, however, and marches me roughly towards the house.
  The employees were marched into the walk-in freezer at gunpoint and locked inside.
  They burst into the farmer's house and when they saw the eldest son, believing him to be the thief, they chained him and marched him to the palace.
  He took her firmly by the arm and marched her to off toward the command deck.
  Then she flung a arm around his neck, making him bend, and marched him down the stairs.
  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.
  His head kept twisting back anxiously as they marched him out of the house, barefoot.
  And then he marched Patrick back into the store and we never saw our skateboard stealing friend again.
  So he goes after the teenagers, and grabs one in a shop, marching him outside.
  Two further men acting as witnesses approached the offender, seemingly disgusted with his actions, and marched him off down the street.
  Anyway, on the time, I was marched in before the court-martial and they were all sitting there at the table, all the officers.
  We were marched back onto the train and laughed at - quite demoralising, really.
3. 1.3 Walk along public roads in an organized procession to protest about something.
  they planned to march on Baton Rouge
  antigovernment protesters marched today through major cities
  Example sentencesExamples
  The protestors originally attempted to march on the US Embassy but heavily-armed police blocked their way.
  The coca farmers, who had yet to join the protests, indicated that they would march on La Paz and block the roads.
  The overtures did not divert tens of thousands from marching against the government.
  Tens of thousands marched in the streets, and masked Hamas militants pledged revenge.
  The Chartists called a rally and 100,000 workers turned up to march on the government.
  But at the moment when city government is ready to make a move, they choose to march on the scene tomorrow in their own protest.
  Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession.
  Two hundred immigrants had marched along Devon, protesting the new policy.
  Hundreds of York City fans were expected to march on Bootham Crescent today in a show of solidarity for the threatened football club.
  Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses.
  Tens of thousands also marched in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama.
  Rabbo joined around 1000 demonstrators as they marched along the road that was dug up by Israeli soldiers last week.
  Hundreds of victims of Britain's A-bomb tests are to march on Parliament today in what they say is their best chance ever to secure compensation.
  Despite her support, about 300 protesters tried to march on the US embassy in the capital, Manila.
  I was aware that the strikers were going to march on Parliament before the end of the week.
  Certainly the tens of thousands marching in Edinburgh are not there just because some pop star told them it was going to be fun.
  More than 150 public service workers marched on Bolton Town Hall during their one day strike.
  On May 29 health care workers are expected to carry out a nine-hour strike and march on the health ministry.
  Thousands of protestors attempted to march on the US embassy in Beirut, but were beaten back by police using tear gas and truncheons.
4. 1.4 (of something abstract) proceed or advance inexorably.
  time marches on
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps music wasn't marching inexorably to dodecaphonic heaven after all.
  Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration.
  We now march inexorably toward war with Iraq, and to fight that war, we will have to call upon many soldiers.
  Together, however, they are inexorably marching toward their fourth league title.
  The only reason why the economy continues to march ahead is on account of the positive flow of funding from the rest of the world.
  Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinaine in a choral sequence that marches inexorably.
  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.
  Synonyms
  move forward, advance, progress, forge ahead, make headway, go on, continue on, roll on, develop, evolve

nounmärCHmɑrtʃ

1usually in singular An act or instance of marching.
the relieving force was more than a day's march away
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- It's important to have a plan for that time, but also to break the march into manageable pieces.
- The trumpet shaped flowers are widely accepted as being a symbol of the Orange Order, and members wear the lily with pride on their sashes during marches.
- It was from here, that 28,000 of the prisoners were taken, towards the end of the War, on what came to be known, as the death marches.
- The afternoon's celebrations included a march down to the ferry launching site, the walking group led by piper Bill Jackson.
- The twin counterpoint battles of Imphal and Kohima at Burma's gateway to India comprised long marches through dense jungles by both sides.
- Route marches, drill and shooting practice helped mould this assortment of keen amateurs filled with patriotic pride into a professional fighting force.
- The travel was slow and easy, though the men kept a steady rhythm in their march, their minds dwelling on their families back home.
- 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.
Synonyms
hike, trek, tramp, slog, footslog, walk
1. 1.1 A piece of music composed to accompany marching or with a rhythmic character suggestive of marching.
  Example sentencesExamples
  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.
  One hears the strong link to the brass band marches of early New Orleans.
  I may have listened to the slow movement funeral march too many times to really hear it.
  Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss.
  Instead the music becomes a jaunty march, of the sort that would have been associated with the armies of revolutionary France.
  I'm listening to some of the Nazi marches Arnie used to listen to.
  There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march.
  The orchestra ended its current tune, and instantly began a mournful march.
  The Normandy Band of the Queen's Division provided a full range of music from marches to the stirring Post Horn Gallop.
  I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though!
  It will include waltzes, marches, operetta, Neapolitan songs and Irish classics.
  Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march.
  Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death.
  The rhythm isn't really a waltz or a march, but rather a stumbling sort of gait, indicative of what was to come in the next few years.
  It is now a permanent part of classical popular music, in the same way as the waltzes of Strauss or the marches of Sousa.
  He is a composer of a number of military marches and made arrangements of traditional Turkish songs.
  In the second movement - the funeral march - musical iconography impinges on performance.
  My only thought about the march so far is that it's not a march in the direct Mahlerian sense.
  The band's repertoire includes marches and hymns, music from the shows, orchestral music and popular music.
  My short program music is a medley of marches by John Philip Sousa.
2. 1.2 A procession as a protest or demonstration.
  a protest march
  Example sentencesExamples
  A police officer caught on video repeatedly bashing a protester walking, just walking, in the front line of a march.
  The big anti-war marches encapsulated a cynical mood and a sense of disengagement - and these are hardly ideal sentiments on which to build a mass movement.
  The methods they used to advance their case were various: petitions, representations, street marches and fasts.
  And, unlike other marches, this one will also propose solutions, rather than simply ranting against the war machine.
  He brings a deep commitment to civil rights, nurtured in marches in Mississippi while a college student.
  Last weekend, the left held large antiwar marches in Washington, San Francisco and elsewhere.
  The curtains flapping from the broken windows led to rumours of white flags and peace marches.
  I will still go on the anti-war marches, but I wonder if I will ever return to my local anti-war comrades - I have drifted from them too.
  I wanna stand up for my rights, attend marches, and create bills of rights without being seen as a troublemaker.
  The often violent reactions of the government to civil rights marches is no less an example of right wing violence.
  Most of the marches in Wellington go to parliament.
  The crackdown on street marches was also very controversial.
  Indeed, they used to hold marches against them.
  I hope there will be marches and prayers for peace until the threat of war recedes.
  There would be no threats of boycotts; there would be no marches; there would be no high-toned talk.
  At one point, the film follows several of the tour's dancers watching a march by the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
  This one pops up in pamphlet after pamphlet at leftist marches and gatherings; it is taught to many black college students.
  He was also involved in the policing of presidential and Royal visits, marches and sectarian rioting.
  They not to have a glimmer of understanding that they live in a democracy and whether we go to war is decided ultimately by parliament not by marches on the street or strongly held opinions.
  Early predictions indicate that the marches look set to become by far the largest demonstration of trade union muscle in decades.
  Synonyms
  parade, procession, march past, promenade, cortège
3. 1.3in singular The progress or continuity of something abstract that is considered to be moving inexorably onward.
  the inevitable march of history
  Example sentencesExamples
  It understands rile future not as simply a repetition of today or as the inevitable march of progress.
  So the Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order and advance the march toward socialism.
  Whatever goes wrong in our lives or the world, the march of progress continues regardless.
  Physics Today will continue to follow the progress of fusion's march toward maturity.
  The steady march of technological advancement should solve that problem, however.
  That's why the steady march toward a more liberal newsroom is so puzzling.
  Why is the steady march of science and technology in these areas a problem?
  Which is possibly a good reason why it's taken longer for gays to progress in the march towards equality.
  Every few centuries, the steady march of change meets a discontinuity, and history hinges on that moment.
  It seems as inevitable as the relentless march of time.
  As the march of history progresses, however, traditions change.
  Is the will so powerful as to counter the onward march of something inevitable?
  Many others have written about New Zealand history as though the steady march forward by the State equated with progress.
  To say that we should merely accept it as inevitable, as part of the march of history, as an inescapable part of the zeitgeist, is to accept descent into degradation.
  However, instead of a steady march of discovery and triumph, reason has led us to believe there are limits to achievement.
  This information was celebrated by the media as the inevitable forward march of progress.
  But so inevitable is the march of events that this is all it seems, a tweak.
  Much of his affection for the South stemmed from his belief that it was a haven from the onward march of modern industrial progress.
  Even the relentless march of performance progress has lost its edge, with the increasing bland commercialisation of the enthusiast market.
  History is certainly not a rational process nor is it a progressive march towards a harmonious consummation.
  Synonyms
  progress, advance, progression, passage, continuance, development, evolution, headway

Phrases

on the march

Marching.
the army was on the march at last
Example sentencesExamples
- They reached the bottom of the hill, and two-thirds of the country was empty, as the orcs had gone on the march to meet Aragorn's army.
- The battle began accidentally when the two armies encountered each other on the march at the pass of Cynoscephalae.
- Armies were on the march, battles were being fought and lost, and regimes became acutely conscious of their vulnerability.
- It is a stunning, impressive picture that captures the movement of an army on the march, as well as the brooding conditions they face almost as an active element in the conflict.
- Another way Sweden found to reduce her war costs was to train her army to live off of the land thereby reducing the supply issue for an army on the march.
- The pressure of that blank metal stare chilled Martel's soul, as if he were watching distant, marauding armies on the march.
- It was like an army on the march when this happened.
- Their job was to ensure no Moslem army should advance suddenly and catch Charles on the march.
- Even most of the meat he had eaten on the march with Cadona's army was cooked or dry.
- The Kingdom of Jerusalem still hung by a thread and armies were on the march that spring.

march to (the beat of) a different drummer

informal Consciously adopt a different approach or attitude from the majority of people; be unconventional.
Example sentencesExamples
- Those who want exegetical help in the interpretation of a specific text will discover that this commentary marches to a different drummer.
- During the go-go days of the late 1990s, when many business thinkers found themselves seduced by the idea that everything is new in the new economy, Jim Collins marched to a different drummer.
- Admiral Rickover, Peter Drucker, and Georges Doriot always marched to a different drummer and got the acclaim of the crowd.
- Now Michael Deaver authors a personal portrait of the former president he says has always marched to a different drummer.
- Lennon is believed to favour a return to Congress and is viewed as a moderate, but the overwhelming message from the conference of over 400 delegates was that the general secretary is marching to a different tune from his troops.
- ‘He marched to a different drummer,’ says his colleague Becker.
- ‘When I walked the picket lines, I really believed that we, as a people, marched to the beat of a different drummer,’ Lyons says.
- Unless you enjoy marching to a different drummer, stick with right betting, avoid wrong betting, and join the tribe.
- Since his college days, Rice has been seen as someone who marched to the beat of a different drummer.
- A professional woman in her 50s said she feels almost ‘invisible’ a lot of the time and that the better jobs or promotions seem to go to those in her company that don't march to a different drummer.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French marcher ‘to walk’ (earlier ‘to trample’), of uncertain origin.

march²

plural nounmärCHmɑrtʃ

Marches

1A frontier or border area between two countries or territories, especially between England and Wales or (formerly) England and Scotland.
the Welsh Marches
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Similarly, Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, points out that in AD1200 Britain was so warm that the Normans made wine in the Welsh Marches.
- The strength of Chester's connections with Liverpool and with Wales and the Marches contrasts with the relative weakness of those to the east and south-east.
- He was sent with his mother to Ludlow in 1473 to be titular ruler of Wales and the Welsh Marches, staying there for much of the rest of his father's reign.
- The Despensers were engaged in empire-building in the Welsh Marches, Roger's own part of the world.
- 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.
- The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere.
- With landed influence now increasingly concentrated in crown hands, the council of Arthur, prince of Wales, at Ludlow, was given greater powers to enforce law and order in the Welsh Marches and English border shires.
- The border Marches were renamed the Middle Shires and the border laws replaced with ‘Jeddart Justice’, where summary executions were common.
- West of the Severn valley and the north midland plain is the Welsh Marches, classic hill and vale country with small areas of upland separated by deeply incised valleys.
- Wroxeter's main street was formed by the road running north-south along the Welsh Marches, linking the fortresses of Caerleon and Chester.
- Set on the Welsh Marches beneath Lancashire, its name comes from the Latin for Place of the Legions.
- This border region, the Marches, is a stretch of pasture-land much broken by hills, woods, and twisting rivers.
Synonyms
borders, boundaries, borderlands, frontiers, limits, confines
1. 1.1the Marches
  dated name for Marche

verbmärCHmɑrtʃ

[no object]march with

(of a country, territory, or estate) have a common frontier with.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French marche (noun), marchir (verb), of Germanic origin; related to mark.

March³

nounmɑrtʃmärCH

The third month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of spring.
the work was completed in March
as modifier the March issue of the magazine
Example sentencesExamples
- In March it gave a final warning that if things did not improve it would consider legal action.
- February and March are the time of year that the area's hare population is most visible.
- Work on the premises is set to begin next month with a view to a grand opening in March or April next year.
- I downloaded my email and found the stats for accesses to this site for the month of March.
- By March last year almost every city and many small towns had set up local coalitions.
- We do know, however, that it will be in February or March next year at the earliest.
- I gave quite a detailed explanation of pension credit in my column in the March issue.
- In March, Blair asked him to talk the unions out of a damaging strike ahead of the election.
- Both said that they expected talks would be finished and a deal would be on the table by March or April.
- In March we launched our new conference guide and the response so far has been excellent.
- The best time to prune a fig bush is late February or early March, while it is still dormant.
- Whale sharks pass by in late March and early April and the occasional dugong has been seen.
- Waiting times are to be cut to six months by March and just three months the following year.
- Whale shark season is in March and April, though you could get lucky at any time of year.
- He is going to be on holiday for a week but will be in a position to file the Report by the 28th March.
- She says he invited her to his hotel room and that the pair met again the following March in Leeds.
- There was a period between October and March when at times we were seven to eight short.
- Work on the site is due to begin at the end of the month and is expected to be completed at the end of March next year.
- In March he was sentenced on both counts to concurrent terms of life imprisonment.
- They flower from March to June and disperse mature seeds from May to July in the second year.

Origin

Middle English: from an Old French dialect variant of marz, from Latin Martius (mensis) ‘(month) of Mars’.

单词	march
释义	march¹ verb mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ 1no object, usually with adverbial of direction Walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread. thousands marched behind the coffin Example sentencesExamples The Spartans attempted a military response, and marched against the leading revolutionary state, Mantinea. We both went to schools where people marched around as military cadets. Tens of thousands marched with Spartacus, and a succession of Roman armies were crushed. Dressed in his formal uniform, he marched in precise military style to the Royal Palace. No more marching in to military music, no women teachers, new school caps with a badge in yellow which we raised when we met teachers out of school bounds. We hear the shouts of the military squadron marching up the hills. They marched out in regular formation, peeling off two by two at each main street to patrol their beats on foot. Lord Jonathan entered the castle along with the other knights and soldiers who marched in unison behind them. The band has been invited to march in the annual Military and Veterans Parade in Weymouth on June 20. Thousands of soldiers were walking around, marching, much like in the present day military manner. I remember marching behind the band on my debut against Cork and saying to myself, ‘What am I doing here?’ She talked off how the military marched around the streets and how unfairly they treated the people. All had marched at least a thousand miles, some much more. Volunteers from this military body now marched to Carthage and stormed the jail. When Emmet first heard this song he is reputed to have said ‘oh that I were at the head of twenty thousand men marching to that air’. Kids were forced to rise before dawn, perform rigorous exercises, and march like soldiers. Military men marched in a circular review, saluting Kim. Below them, the Imperial Army marched along the road, plumes of smoke rising from the cratered remains of the Star encampments. The soldiers then marched out of the palace gates to the delight of the crowds. Private military personnel marched with the US Army first into Somalia, then Bosnia, and Kosovo. Synonyms stride, walk, troop, step, pace, tread footslog, slog, tramp, hike, trudge parade, file, process, promenade British informal yomp 1.1 Walk quickly and with determination. without a word she marched from the room Example sentencesExamples I thought I saw Eric flush, but he marched off too quickly for me to be certain. He struggled to keep up with her as she marched along the road. Without saying a word he marched right out of the park leaving Rebecca to stare at him. With a determined step she marched purposely toward the blackened doorway. 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. She started to walk away, only to march back determinedly less than five seconds later. I marched determinedly to my homeroom class and saw Terry at the wall next to the door. Jason-Steve smiled as Evan marched with a determined stance to find the phone. He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window. If all else fails, determinedly march up to onlookers with camera in hand. I exited the elevator quickly, marching out to the crowded street. Licking my lips at the wondrous prospect of a day jam-packed with data entry madness, I marched onwards determinedly. She quickly turned and began marching towards her apartment building, now only a block away. Saturday morning came, and we quickly marched out the door and towards the Metro stop. At each obstacle she had held her head high and marched past it, determined to defeat the impossible. I turned around and started marching back our room, confident that Charles would never bug me again. She clenched her fists and marched back to her room without a word. She marches into the training room where the Product Manager is giving a training session. With these words, Simone marched forward with anger filling inside her and her two sisters trailing behind. She nodded the moment I saw Dr. Kay enter the room and come marching over to us. Synonyms stalk, strut, stride, flounce, storm, stomp, sweep, swagger 1.2with object and adverbial of direction Force (someone) to walk somewhere quickly. she gripped Rachel's arm and marched her through the door Example sentencesExamples Shortly after this a man was marched back into the store and put into a small staff only room, guarded by a security guard and one of the beefier shop boys. A parental search party found us shivering and cowering in the scrub and marched us back to civilisation. His head kept twisting back anxiously as they marched him out of the house, barefoot. He doesn't let go of my arm, however, and marches me roughly towards the house. Wendy grabbed a ringleader's coat and marched him out of the door. Two further men acting as witnesses approached the offender, seemingly disgusted with his actions, and marched him off down the street. Anyway, on the time, I was marched in before the court-martial and they were all sitting there at the table, all the officers. And then he marched Patrick back into the store and we never saw our skateboard stealing friend again. Both officers grabbed him by the arms in a thumb lock and marched him out of the shop past the customers. He then marched her to a bank and forced her to withdraw 500 from her savings. They burst into the farmer's house and when they saw the eldest son, believing him to be the thief, they chained him and marched him to the palace. The employees were marched into the walk-in freezer at gunpoint and locked inside. Yes, we were marched off to the local cinema to see that. We were marched back onto the train and laughed at - quite demoralising, really. He marched me quickly back to our allocated area and took me severely in waltz position. He took her firmly by the arm and marched her to off toward the command deck. The Nazis who ran the camp tried to hide their crimes by marching their victims away. 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. So he goes after the teenagers, and grabs one in a shop, marching him outside. Then she flung a arm around his neck, making him bend, and marched him down the stairs. 1.3 Walk along public roads in an organized procession as a form of protest. unemployed workers marched from Jarrow to London they planned to march on Baton Rouge Example sentencesExamples On May 29 health care workers are expected to carry out a nine-hour strike and march on the health ministry. Rabbo joined around 1000 demonstrators as they marched along the road that was dug up by Israeli soldiers last week. The overtures did not divert tens of thousands from marching against the government. Thousands of protestors attempted to march on the US embassy in Beirut, but were beaten back by police using tear gas and truncheons. The Chartists called a rally and 100,000 workers turned up to march on the government. More than 150 public service workers marched on Bolton Town Hall during their one day strike. The coca farmers, who had yet to join the protests, indicated that they would march on La Paz and block the roads. Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession. Hundreds of victims of Britain's A-bomb tests are to march on Parliament today in what they say is their best chance ever to secure compensation. Tens of thousands marched in the streets, and masked Hamas militants pledged revenge. Tens of thousands also marched in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama. Two hundred immigrants had marched along Devon, protesting the new policy. The protestors originally attempted to march on the US Embassy but heavily-armed police blocked their way. Certainly the tens of thousands marching in Edinburgh are not there just because some pop star told them it was going to be fun. I was aware that the strikers were going to march on Parliament before the end of the week. Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses. Hundreds of York City fans were expected to march on Bootham Crescent today in a show of solidarity for the threatened football club. Despite her support, about 300 protesters tried to march on the US embassy in the capital, Manila. But at the moment when city government is ready to make a move, they choose to march on the scene tomorrow in their own protest. 1.4 (of something abstract) proceed or advance inexorably. time marches on Example sentencesExamples Together, however, they are inexorably marching toward their fourth league title. We now march inexorably toward war with Iraq, and to fight that war, we will have to call upon many soldiers. We all sit here, watching and trying to make sense of it all, as Time marches by inexorably… Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration. Perhaps music wasn't marching inexorably to dodecaphonic heaven after all. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinaine in a choral sequence that marches inexorably. The only reason why the economy continues to march ahead is on account of the positive flow of funding from the rest of the world. Huygens' ground track marches inexorably to the east, though the descent is now getting much steeper. Synonyms move forward, advance, progress, forge ahead, make headway, go on, continue on, roll on, develop, evolve noun mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ 1An act or instance of marching. the relieving force was more than a day's march away Example sentencesExamples It was from here, that 28,000 of the prisoners were taken, towards the end of the War, on what came to be known, as the death marches. Route marches, drill and shooting practice helped mould this assortment of keen amateurs filled with patriotic pride into a professional fighting force. 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. The afternoon's celebrations included a march down to the ferry launching site, the walking group led by piper Bill Jackson. 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 twin counterpoint battles of Imphal and Kohima at Burma's gateway to India comprised long marches through dense jungles by both sides. The trumpet shaped flowers are widely accepted as being a symbol of the Orange Order, and members wear the lily with pride on their sashes during marches. It's important to have a plan for that time, but also to break the march into manageable pieces. The travel was slow and easy, though the men kept a steady rhythm in their march, their minds dwelling on their families back home. Synonyms hike, trek, tramp, slog, footslog, walk route march, forced march British informal yomp 1.1 A piece of music composed to accompany marching or with a rhythm suggestive of marching. he began to hum a funeral march Example sentencesExamples Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death. I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though! There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march. I may have listened to the slow movement funeral march too many times to really hear it. Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march. It is now a permanent part of classical popular music, in the same way as the waltzes of Strauss or the marches of Sousa. The rhythm isn't really a waltz or a march, but rather a stumbling sort of gait, indicative of what was to come in the next few years. The band's repertoire includes marches and hymns, music from the shows, orchestral music and popular music. The orchestra ended its current tune, and instantly began a mournful march. Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss. My short program music is a medley of marches by John Philip Sousa. My only thought about the march so far is that it's not a march in the direct Mahlerian sense. Instead the music becomes a jaunty march, of the sort that would have been associated with the armies of revolutionary France. One hears the strong link to the brass band marches of early New Orleans. 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 is a composer of a number of military marches and made arrangements of traditional Turkish songs. I'm listening to some of the Nazi marches Arnie used to listen to. It will include waltzes, marches, operetta, Neapolitan songs and Irish classics. In the second movement - the funeral march - musical iconography impinges on performance. The Normandy Band of the Queen's Division provided a full range of music from marches to the stirring Post Horn Gallop. 1.2 A procession organized as a protest. a protest march Example sentencesExamples The methods they used to advance their case were various: petitions, representations, street marches and fasts. He was also involved in the policing of presidential and Royal visits, marches and sectarian rioting. The often violent reactions of the government to civil rights marches is no less an example of right wing violence. Early predictions indicate that the marches look set to become by far the largest demonstration of trade union muscle in decades. A police officer caught on video repeatedly bashing a protester walking, just walking, in the front line of a march. There would be no threats of boycotts; there would be no marches; there would be no high-toned talk. He brings a deep commitment to civil rights, nurtured in marches in Mississippi while a college student. I hope there will be marches and prayers for peace until the threat of war recedes. This one pops up in pamphlet after pamphlet at leftist marches and gatherings; it is taught to many black college students. They not to have a glimmer of understanding that they live in a democracy and whether we go to war is decided ultimately by parliament not by marches on the street or strongly held opinions. The crackdown on street marches was also very controversial. And, unlike other marches, this one will also propose solutions, rather than simply ranting against the war machine. I will still go on the anti-war marches, but I wonder if I will ever return to my local anti-war comrades - I have drifted from them too. The big anti-war marches encapsulated a cynical mood and a sense of disengagement - and these are hardly ideal sentiments on which to build a mass movement. At one point, the film follows several of the tour's dancers watching a march by the AIDS activist group ACT UP. Most of the marches in Wellington go to parliament. I wanna stand up for my rights, attend marches, and create bills of rights without being seen as a troublemaker. Indeed, they used to hold marches against them. Last weekend, the left held large antiwar marches in Washington, San Francisco and elsewhere. The curtains flapping from the broken windows led to rumours of white flags and peace marches. Synonyms parade, procession, march past, promenade, cortège demonstration, protest informal demo Indian morcha 1.3in singular The steady and inevitable development or progress of something. the march of history Example sentencesExamples To say that we should merely accept it as inevitable, as part of the march of history, as an inescapable part of the zeitgeist, is to accept descent into degradation. So the Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order and advance the march toward socialism. But so inevitable is the march of events that this is all it seems, a tweak. That's why the steady march toward a more liberal newsroom is so puzzling. It understands rile future not as simply a repetition of today or as the inevitable march of progress. Whatever goes wrong in our lives or the world, the march of progress continues regardless. Which is possibly a good reason why it's taken longer for gays to progress in the march towards equality. Physics Today will continue to follow the progress of fusion's march toward maturity. Many others have written about New Zealand history as though the steady march forward by the State equated with progress. It seems as inevitable as the relentless march of time. Every few centuries, the steady march of change meets a discontinuity, and history hinges on that moment. The steady march of technological advancement should solve that problem, however. History is certainly not a rational process nor is it a progressive march towards a harmonious consummation. However, instead of a steady march of discovery and triumph, reason has led us to believe there are limits to achievement. Much of his affection for the South stemmed from his belief that it was a haven from the onward march of modern industrial progress. Even the relentless march of performance progress has lost its edge, with the increasing bland commercialisation of the enthusiast market. This information was celebrated by the media as the inevitable forward march of progress. Why is the steady march of science and technology in these areas a problem? Is the will so powerful as to counter the onward march of something inevitable? As the march of history progresses, however, traditions change. Synonyms progress, advance, progression, passage, continuance, development, evolution, headway Phrases march to (the beat of) a different tune (or drummer) informal Consciously adopt a different approach or attitude to the majority of people. he has always marched to a different tune but this time his perversity may be his undoing Example sentencesExamples Admiral Rickover, Peter Drucker, and Georges Doriot always marched to a different drummer and got the acclaim of the crowd. Since his college days, Rice has been seen as someone who marched to the beat of a different drummer. During the go-go days of the late 1990s, when many business thinkers found themselves seduced by the idea that everything is new in the new economy, Jim Collins marched to a different drummer. A professional woman in her 50s said she feels almost ‘invisible’ a lot of the time and that the better jobs or promotions seem to go to those in her company that don't march to a different drummer. Now Michael Deaver authors a personal portrait of the former president he says has always marched to a different drummer. ‘He marched to a different drummer,’ says his colleague Becker. Unless you enjoy marching to a different drummer, stick with right betting, avoid wrong betting, and join the tribe. ‘When I walked the picket lines, I really believed that we, as a people, marched to the beat of a different drummer,’ Lyons says. Those who want exegetical help in the interpretation of a specific text will discover that this commentary marches to a different drummer. Lennon is believed to favour a return to Congress and is viewed as a moderate, but the overwhelming message from the conference of over 400 delegates was that the general secretary is marching to a different tune from his troops. on the march 1Marching. the army was on the march at last Example sentencesExamples Even most of the meat he had eaten on the march with Cadona's army was cooked or dry. The battle began accidentally when the two armies encountered each other on the march at the pass of Cynoscephalae. It is a stunning, impressive picture that captures the movement of an army on the march, as well as the brooding conditions they face almost as an active element in the conflict. Another way Sweden found to reduce her war costs was to train her army to live off of the land thereby reducing the supply issue for an army on the march. The Kingdom of Jerusalem still hung by a thread and armies were on the march that spring. Their job was to ensure no Moslem army should advance suddenly and catch Charles on the march. They reached the bottom of the hill, and two-thirds of the country was empty, as the orcs had gone on the march to meet Aragorn's army. Armies were on the march, battles were being fought and lost, and regimes became acutely conscious of their vulnerability. The pressure of that blank metal stare chilled Martel's soul, as if he were watching distant, marauding armies on the march. It was like an army on the march when this happened. 1.1Making progress. United are on the march again Example sentencesExamples The government there has a vested interest in being seen to be hardline: the right-wing is on the march and on the rise in Belgium, causing considerable unease in Brussels. Partick Thistle are joint top of the Second Division just behind Clydebank on goal difference and John Lambie is convincing friend and foe alike that the Firhill side are on the march once more. But the gospel according to Mel betrays a peculiarly unsophisticated take on the key event in the Christian tradition, and casts doubt on the idea that religion is on the march. Let us be in no doubt that the US military industrial complex is off the leash and on the march, bankrolling both Republicans and Democrats. Military style has been on the march for a while now, but this season, army attire will push its way to the fashion front. That superb strike was as good a note as any to sign off on, leaving everyone who saw the performance half-thinking of a quick dash to the bookies before word got out that Towers are on the march. Freedom has always been on the march in this country. Communism was on the march in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola. Because of the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, two terror regimes are gone forever, freedom is on the march, and America is more secure. This time last year, when Celtic were engaged in a heroic, though ultimately futile, Champions League campaign, O'Neill's reputation was 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 Rhymes arch, larch, parch, starch march² plural noun mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ Marches 1An area of land on the border between two countries or territories, especially between England and Wales or (formerly) England and Scotland. the Welsh Marches Example sentencesExamples Similarly, Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, points out that in AD1200 Britain was so warm that the Normans made wine in the Welsh Marches. The border Marches were renamed the Middle Shires and the border laws replaced with ‘Jeddart Justice’, where summary executions were common. The Despensers were engaged in empire-building in the Welsh Marches, Roger's own part of the world. 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. He was sent with his mother to Ludlow in 1473 to be titular ruler of Wales and the Welsh Marches, staying there for much of the rest of his father's reign. West of the Severn valley and the north midland plain is the Welsh Marches, classic hill and vale country with small areas of upland separated by deeply incised valleys. The strength of Chester's connections with Liverpool and with Wales and the Marches contrasts with the relative weakness of those to the east and south-east. Set on the Welsh Marches beneath Lancashire, its name comes from the Latin for Place of the Legions. Wroxeter's main street was formed by the road running north-south along the Welsh Marches, linking the fortresses of Caerleon and Chester. The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere. This border region, the Marches, is a stretch of pasture-land much broken by hills, woods, and twisting rivers. 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. With landed influence now increasingly concentrated in crown hands, the council of Arthur, prince of Wales, at Ludlow, was given greater powers to enforce law and order in the Welsh Marches and English border shires. Synonyms borders, boundaries, borderlands, frontiers, limits, confines historical marchlands 1.1the Marches dated name for Marche verb mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ [no object]march with (of a country, territory, or estate) have a common frontier with. his estate marches with yours Origin Middle English: from Old French marche (noun), marchir (verb), of Germanic origin; related to mark¹. March³ noun mɑːtʃmɑrtʃ The third month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of spring. the work was completed in March as modifier the March issue of the magazine Example sentencesExamples The best time to prune a fig bush is late February or early March, while it is still dormant. Work on the premises is set to begin next month with a view to a grand opening in March or April next year. February and March are the time of year that the area's hare population is most visible. Whale sharks pass by in late March and early April and the occasional dugong has been seen. Work on the site is due to begin at the end of the month and is expected to be completed at the end of March next year. In March he was sentenced on both counts to concurrent terms of life imprisonment. We do know, however, that it will be in February or March next year at the earliest. In March we launched our new conference guide and the response so far has been excellent. I gave quite a detailed explanation of pension credit in my column in the March issue. Both said that they expected talks would be finished and a deal would be on the table by March or April. I downloaded my email and found the stats for accesses to this site for the month of March. He is going to be on holiday for a week but will be in a position to file the Report by the 28th March. In March it gave a final warning that if things did not improve it would consider legal action. She says he invited her to his hotel room and that the pair met again the following March in Leeds. There was a period between October and March when at times we were seven to eight short. They flower from March to June and disperse mature seeds from May to July in the second year. Whale shark season is in March and April, though you could get lucky at any time of year. Waiting times are to be cut to six months by March and just three months the following year. In March, Blair asked him to talk the unions out of a damaging strike ahead of the election. 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'. verb.1 phr. noun..1 noun.1 march¹ verbmärCHmɑrtʃ 1no object, usually with adverbial of direction Walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread. three companies of soldiers marched around the field Example sentencesExamples Tens of thousands marched with Spartacus, and a succession of Roman armies were crushed. Kids were forced to rise before dawn, perform rigorous exercises, and march like soldiers. No more marching in to military music, no women teachers, new school caps with a badge in yellow which we raised when we met teachers out of school bounds. Below them, the Imperial Army marched along the road, plumes of smoke rising from the cratered remains of the Star encampments. We hear the shouts of the military squadron marching up the hills. They marched out in regular formation, peeling off two by two at each main street to patrol their beats on foot. All had marched at least a thousand miles, some much more. The soldiers then marched out of the palace gates to the delight of the crowds. Lord Jonathan entered the castle along with the other knights and soldiers who marched in unison behind them. Volunteers from this military body now marched to Carthage and stormed the jail. Dressed in his formal uniform, he marched in precise military style to the Royal Palace. When Emmet first heard this song he is reputed to have said ‘oh that I were at the head of twenty thousand men marching to that air’. She talked off how the military marched around the streets and how unfairly they treated the people. The Spartans attempted a military response, and marched against the leading revolutionary state, Mantinea. We both went to schools where people marched around as military cadets. Private military personnel marched with the US Army first into Somalia, then Bosnia, and Kosovo. Thousands of soldiers were walking around, marching, much like in the present day military manner. Military men marched in a circular review, saluting Kim. The band has been invited to march in the annual Military and Veterans Parade in Weymouth on June 20. I remember marching behind the band on my debut against Cork and saying to myself, ‘What am I doing here?’ Synonyms stride, walk, troop, step, pace, tread 1.1 Walk or proceed quickly and with determination. without a word she marched from the room Example sentencesExamples Without saying a word he marched right out of the park leaving Rebecca to stare at him. She clenched her fists and marched back to her room without a word. I marched determinedly to my homeroom class and saw Terry at the wall next to the door. Saturday morning came, and we quickly marched out the door and towards the Metro stop. 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. Licking my lips at the wondrous prospect of a day jam-packed with data entry madness, I marched onwards determinedly. She nodded the moment I saw Dr. Kay enter the room and come marching over to us. She marches into the training room where the Product Manager is giving a training session. She started to walk away, only to march back determinedly less than five seconds later. He struggled to keep up with her as she marched along the road. I thought I saw Eric flush, but he marched off too quickly for me to be certain. She quickly turned and began marching towards her apartment building, now only a block away. With a determined step she marched purposely toward the blackened doorway. With these words, Simone marched forward with anger filling inside her and her two sisters trailing behind. Jason-Steve smiled as Evan marched with a determined stance to find the phone. If all else fails, determinedly march up to onlookers with camera in hand. At each obstacle she had held her head high and marched past it, determined to defeat the impossible. He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window. I turned around and started marching back our room, confident that Charles would never bug me again. Synonyms stalk, strut, stride, flounce, storm, stomp, sweep, swagger 1.2with object and adverbial of direction Force (someone) to walk somewhere quickly. she gripped Rachel's arm and marched her out through the doors Example sentencesExamples He marched me quickly back to our allocated area and took me severely in waltz position. A parental search party found us shivering and cowering in the scrub and marched us back to civilisation. Yes, we were marched off to the local cinema to see that. The Nazis who ran the camp tried to hide their crimes by marching their victims away. Wendy grabbed a ringleader's coat and marched him out of the door. Both officers grabbed him by the arms in a thumb lock and marched him out of the shop past the customers. He then marched her to a bank and forced her to withdraw 500 from her savings. Shortly after this a man was marched back into the store and put into a small staff only room, guarded by a security guard and one of the beefier shop boys. He doesn't let go of my arm, however, and marches me roughly towards the house. The employees were marched into the walk-in freezer at gunpoint and locked inside. They burst into the farmer's house and when they saw the eldest son, believing him to be the thief, they chained him and marched him to the palace. He took her firmly by the arm and marched her to off toward the command deck. Then she flung a arm around his neck, making him bend, and marched him down the stairs. 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. His head kept twisting back anxiously as they marched him out of the house, barefoot. And then he marched Patrick back into the store and we never saw our skateboard stealing friend again. So he goes after the teenagers, and grabs one in a shop, marching him outside. Two further men acting as witnesses approached the offender, seemingly disgusted with his actions, and marched him off down the street. Anyway, on the time, I was marched in before the court-martial and they were all sitting there at the table, all the officers. We were marched back onto the train and laughed at - quite demoralising, really. 1.3 Walk along public roads in an organized procession to protest about something. they planned to march on Baton Rouge antigovernment protesters marched today through major cities Example sentencesExamples The protestors originally attempted to march on the US Embassy but heavily-armed police blocked their way. The coca farmers, who had yet to join the protests, indicated that they would march on La Paz and block the roads. The overtures did not divert tens of thousands from marching against the government. Tens of thousands marched in the streets, and masked Hamas militants pledged revenge. The Chartists called a rally and 100,000 workers turned up to march on the government. But at the moment when city government is ready to make a move, they choose to march on the scene tomorrow in their own protest. Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession. Two hundred immigrants had marched along Devon, protesting the new policy. Hundreds of York City fans were expected to march on Bootham Crescent today in a show of solidarity for the threatened football club. Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses. Tens of thousands also marched in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama. Rabbo joined around 1000 demonstrators as they marched along the road that was dug up by Israeli soldiers last week. Hundreds of victims of Britain's A-bomb tests are to march on Parliament today in what they say is their best chance ever to secure compensation. Despite her support, about 300 protesters tried to march on the US embassy in the capital, Manila. I was aware that the strikers were going to march on Parliament before the end of the week. Certainly the tens of thousands marching in Edinburgh are not there just because some pop star told them it was going to be fun. More than 150 public service workers marched on Bolton Town Hall during their one day strike. On May 29 health care workers are expected to carry out a nine-hour strike and march on the health ministry. Thousands of protestors attempted to march on the US embassy in Beirut, but were beaten back by police using tear gas and truncheons. 1.4 (of something abstract) proceed or advance inexorably. time marches on Example sentencesExamples Perhaps music wasn't marching inexorably to dodecaphonic heaven after all. Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration. We now march inexorably toward war with Iraq, and to fight that war, we will have to call upon many soldiers. Together, however, they are inexorably marching toward their fourth league title. The only reason why the economy continues to march ahead is on account of the positive flow of funding from the rest of the world. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinaine in a choral sequence that marches inexorably. 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. Synonyms move forward, advance, progress, forge ahead, make headway, go on, continue on, roll on, develop, evolve nounmärCHmɑrtʃ 1usually in singular An act or instance of marching. the relieving force was more than a day's march away Example sentencesExamples 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. It's important to have a plan for that time, but also to break the march into manageable pieces. The trumpet shaped flowers are widely accepted as being a symbol of the Orange Order, and members wear the lily with pride on their sashes during marches. It was from here, that 28,000 of the prisoners were taken, towards the end of the War, on what came to be known, as the death marches. The afternoon's celebrations included a march down to the ferry launching site, the walking group led by piper Bill Jackson. The twin counterpoint battles of Imphal and Kohima at Burma's gateway to India comprised long marches through dense jungles by both sides. Route marches, drill and shooting practice helped mould this assortment of keen amateurs filled with patriotic pride into a professional fighting force. The travel was slow and easy, though the men kept a steady rhythm in their march, their minds dwelling on their families back home. 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. Synonyms hike, trek, tramp, slog, footslog, walk 1.1 A piece of music composed to accompany marching or with a rhythmic character suggestive of marching. Example sentencesExamples 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. One hears the strong link to the brass band marches of early New Orleans. I may have listened to the slow movement funeral march too many times to really hear it. Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss. Instead the music becomes a jaunty march, of the sort that would have been associated with the armies of revolutionary France. I'm listening to some of the Nazi marches Arnie used to listen to. There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march. The orchestra ended its current tune, and instantly began a mournful march. The Normandy Band of the Queen's Division provided a full range of music from marches to the stirring Post Horn Gallop. I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though! It will include waltzes, marches, operetta, Neapolitan songs and Irish classics. Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march. Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death. The rhythm isn't really a waltz or a march, but rather a stumbling sort of gait, indicative of what was to come in the next few years. It is now a permanent part of classical popular music, in the same way as the waltzes of Strauss or the marches of Sousa. He is a composer of a number of military marches and made arrangements of traditional Turkish songs. In the second movement - the funeral march - musical iconography impinges on performance. My only thought about the march so far is that it's not a march in the direct Mahlerian sense. The band's repertoire includes marches and hymns, music from the shows, orchestral music and popular music. My short program music is a medley of marches by John Philip Sousa. 1.2 A procession as a protest or demonstration. a protest march Example sentencesExamples A police officer caught on video repeatedly bashing a protester walking, just walking, in the front line of a march. The big anti-war marches encapsulated a cynical mood and a sense of disengagement - and these are hardly ideal sentiments on which to build a mass movement. The methods they used to advance their case were various: petitions, representations, street marches and fasts. And, unlike other marches, this one will also propose solutions, rather than simply ranting against the war machine. He brings a deep commitment to civil rights, nurtured in marches in Mississippi while a college student. Last weekend, the left held large antiwar marches in Washington, San Francisco and elsewhere. The curtains flapping from the broken windows led to rumours of white flags and peace marches. I will still go on the anti-war marches, but I wonder if I will ever return to my local anti-war comrades - I have drifted from them too. I wanna stand up for my rights, attend marches, and create bills of rights without being seen as a troublemaker. The often violent reactions of the government to civil rights marches is no less an example of right wing violence. Most of the marches in Wellington go to parliament. The crackdown on street marches was also very controversial. Indeed, they used to hold marches against them. I hope there will be marches and prayers for peace until the threat of war recedes. There would be no threats of boycotts; there would be no marches; there would be no high-toned talk. At one point, the film follows several of the tour's dancers watching a march by the AIDS activist group ACT UP. This one pops up in pamphlet after pamphlet at leftist marches and gatherings; it is taught to many black college students. He was also involved in the policing of presidential and Royal visits, marches and sectarian rioting. They not to have a glimmer of understanding that they live in a democracy and whether we go to war is decided ultimately by parliament not by marches on the street or strongly held opinions. Early predictions indicate that the marches look set to become by far the largest demonstration of trade union muscle in decades. Synonyms parade, procession, march past, promenade, cortège 1.3in singular The progress or continuity of something abstract that is considered to be moving inexorably onward. the inevitable march of history Example sentencesExamples It understands rile future not as simply a repetition of today or as the inevitable march of progress. So the Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order and advance the march toward socialism. Whatever goes wrong in our lives or the world, the march of progress continues regardless. Physics Today will continue to follow the progress of fusion's march toward maturity. The steady march of technological advancement should solve that problem, however. That's why the steady march toward a more liberal newsroom is so puzzling. Why is the steady march of science and technology in these areas a problem? Which is possibly a good reason why it's taken longer for gays to progress in the march towards equality. Every few centuries, the steady march of change meets a discontinuity, and history hinges on that moment. It seems as inevitable as the relentless march of time. As the march of history progresses, however, traditions change. Is the will so powerful as to counter the onward march of something inevitable? Many others have written about New Zealand history as though the steady march forward by the State equated with progress. To say that we should merely accept it as inevitable, as part of the march of history, as an inescapable part of the zeitgeist, is to accept descent into degradation. However, instead of a steady march of discovery and triumph, reason has led us to believe there are limits to achievement. This information was celebrated by the media as the inevitable forward march of progress. But so inevitable is the march of events that this is all it seems, a tweak. Much of his affection for the South stemmed from his belief that it was a haven from the onward march of modern industrial progress. Even the relentless march of performance progress has lost its edge, with the increasing bland commercialisation of the enthusiast market. History is certainly not a rational process nor is it a progressive march towards a harmonious consummation. Synonyms progress, advance, progression, passage, continuance, development, evolution, headway Phrases on the march Marching. the army was on the march at last Example sentencesExamples They reached the bottom of the hill, and two-thirds of the country was empty, as the orcs had gone on the march to meet Aragorn's army. The battle began accidentally when the two armies encountered each other on the march at the pass of Cynoscephalae. Armies were on the march, battles were being fought and lost, and regimes became acutely conscious of their vulnerability. It is a stunning, impressive picture that captures the movement of an army on the march, as well as the brooding conditions they face almost as an active element in the conflict. Another way Sweden found to reduce her war costs was to train her army to live off of the land thereby reducing the supply issue for an army on the march. The pressure of that blank metal stare chilled Martel's soul, as if he were watching distant, marauding armies on the march. It was like an army on the march when this happened. Their job was to ensure no Moslem army should advance suddenly and catch Charles on the march. Even most of the meat he had eaten on the march with Cadona's army was cooked or dry. The Kingdom of Jerusalem still hung by a thread and armies were on the march that spring. march to (the beat of) a different drummer informal Consciously adopt a different approach or attitude from the majority of people; be unconventional. Example sentencesExamples Those who want exegetical help in the interpretation of a specific text will discover that this commentary marches to a different drummer. During the go-go days of the late 1990s, when many business thinkers found themselves seduced by the idea that everything is new in the new economy, Jim Collins marched to a different drummer. Admiral Rickover, Peter Drucker, and Georges Doriot always marched to a different drummer and got the acclaim of the crowd. Now Michael Deaver authors a personal portrait of the former president he says has always marched to a different drummer. Lennon is believed to favour a return to Congress and is viewed as a moderate, but the overwhelming message from the conference of over 400 delegates was that the general secretary is marching to a different tune from his troops. ‘He marched to a different drummer,’ says his colleague Becker. ‘When I walked the picket lines, I really believed that we, as a people, marched to the beat of a different drummer,’ Lyons says. Unless you enjoy marching to a different drummer, stick with right betting, avoid wrong betting, and join the tribe. Since his college days, Rice has been seen as someone who marched to the beat of a different drummer. A professional woman in her 50s said she feels almost ‘invisible’ a lot of the time and that the better jobs or promotions seem to go to those in her company that don't march to a different drummer. Origin Late Middle English: from French marcher ‘to walk’ (earlier ‘to trample’), of uncertain origin. march² plural nounmärCHmɑrtʃ Marches 1A frontier or border area between two countries or territories, especially between England and Wales or (formerly) England and Scotland. the Welsh Marches Example sentencesExamples 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. Similarly, Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, points out that in AD1200 Britain was so warm that the Normans made wine in the Welsh Marches. The strength of Chester's connections with Liverpool and with Wales and the Marches contrasts with the relative weakness of those to the east and south-east. He was sent with his mother to Ludlow in 1473 to be titular ruler of Wales and the Welsh Marches, staying there for much of the rest of his father's reign. The Despensers were engaged in empire-building in the Welsh Marches, Roger's own part of the world. 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. The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere. With landed influence now increasingly concentrated in crown hands, the council of Arthur, prince of Wales, at Ludlow, was given greater powers to enforce law and order in the Welsh Marches and English border shires. The border Marches were renamed the Middle Shires and the border laws replaced with ‘Jeddart Justice’, where summary executions were common. West of the Severn valley and the north midland plain is the Welsh Marches, classic hill and vale country with small areas of upland separated by deeply incised valleys. Wroxeter's main street was formed by the road running north-south along the Welsh Marches, linking the fortresses of Caerleon and Chester. Set on the Welsh Marches beneath Lancashire, its name comes from the Latin for Place of the Legions. This border region, the Marches, is a stretch of pasture-land much broken by hills, woods, and twisting rivers. Synonyms borders, boundaries, borderlands, frontiers, limits, confines 1.1the Marches dated name for Marche verbmärCHmɑrtʃ [no object]march with (of a country, territory, or estate) have a common frontier with. Origin Middle English: from Old French marche (noun), marchir (verb), of Germanic origin; related to mark. March³ nounmɑrtʃmärCH The third month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of spring. the work was completed in March as modifier the March issue of the magazine Example sentencesExamples In March it gave a final warning that if things did not improve it would consider legal action. February and March are the time of year that the area's hare population is most visible. Work on the premises is set to begin next month with a view to a grand opening in March or April next year. I downloaded my email and found the stats for accesses to this site for the month of March. By March last year almost every city and many small towns had set up local coalitions. We do know, however, that it will be in February or March next year at the earliest. I gave quite a detailed explanation of pension credit in my column in the March issue. In March, Blair asked him to talk the unions out of a damaging strike ahead of the election. Both said that they expected talks would be finished and a deal would be on the table by March or April. In March we launched our new conference guide and the response so far has been excellent. The best time to prune a fig bush is late February or early March, while it is still dormant. Whale sharks pass by in late March and early April and the occasional dugong has been seen. Waiting times are to be cut to six months by March and just three months the following year. Whale shark season is in March and April, though you could get lucky at any time of year. He is going to be on holiday for a week but will be in a position to file the Report by the 28th March. She says he invited her to his hotel room and that the pair met again the following March in Leeds. There was a period between October and March when at times we were seven to eight short. Work on the site is due to begin at the end of the month and is expected to be completed at the end of March next year. In March he was sentenced on both counts to concurrent terms of life imprisonment. They flower from March to June and disperse mature seeds from May to July in the second year. Origin Middle English: from an Old French dialect variant of marz, from Latin Martius (mensis) ‘(month) of Mars’. verb.1 phr. noun..1 noun.1
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