march
♦ march /m'ɑːrtʃ/ (marches marching marched)
1 [VERB] V prep/adv, V n adv/prep, V amount/n, also V
When soldiers march somewhere, or when a commanding officer marches them somewhere, they walk there with very regular steps, as a group.
A Scottish battalion was marching down the street...
Captain Ramirez called them to attention and marched them off to the main camp...
We marched fifteen miles to Yadkin River...
[N-COUNT]
March is also a noun.
After a short march, the column entered the village.
2 [VERB] V prep/adv
When a large group of people march for a cause, they walk somewhere together in order to express their ideas or to protest about something.
The demonstrators then marched through the capital chanting slogans and demanding free elections...
[N-COUNT]
March is also a noun.
Organisers expect up to 300,000 protesters to join the march.
● marcher [N-COUNT]
Fights between police and marchers lasted for three hours.
3 [VERB] V prep/adv
If you say that someone marches somewhere, you mean that they walk there quickly and in a determined way, for example because they are angry.
He marched into the kitchen without knocking.
4 [VERB] V n prep/adv
If you march someone somewhere, you force them to walk there with you, for example by holding their arm tightly.
I marched him across the room, down the hall and out onto the doorstep.
5 [N-SING] usu the N of n
The march of something is its steady development or progress.
It is easy to feel trampled by the relentless march of technology...
6 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A march is a piece of music with a regular rhythm that you can march to.
A military band played Russian marches and folk tunes.
7 [PHRASE] PHR after v
If you give someone their marching orders, you tell them that you no longer want or need them, for example as your employee or as your lover. (BRIT; in AM, use walking papers)
What does it take for a woman to say `that's enough' and give her man his marching orders?
8 [PHRASE] V inflects, oft PHR on n
If you steal a march on someone, you start doing something before they do it in order to gain an advantage over them.
If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
1 [VERB] V prep/adv, V n adv/prep, V amount/n, also V
When soldiers march somewhere, or when a commanding officer marches them somewhere, they walk there with very regular steps, as a group.
A Scottish battalion was marching down the street...
Captain Ramirez called them to attention and marched them off to the main camp...
We marched fifteen miles to Yadkin River...
[N-COUNT]
March is also a noun.
After a short march, the column entered the village.
2 [VERB] V prep/adv
When a large group of people march for a cause, they walk somewhere together in order to express their ideas or to protest about something.
The demonstrators then marched through the capital chanting slogans and demanding free elections...
[N-COUNT]
March is also a noun.
Organisers expect up to 300,000 protesters to join the march.
● marcher [N-COUNT]
Fights between police and marchers lasted for three hours.
3 [VERB] V prep/adv
If you say that someone marches somewhere, you mean that they walk there quickly and in a determined way, for example because they are angry.
He marched into the kitchen without knocking.
4 [VERB] V n prep/adv
If you march someone somewhere, you force them to walk there with you, for example by holding their arm tightly.
I marched him across the room, down the hall and out onto the doorstep.
5 [N-SING] usu the N of n
The march of something is its steady development or progress.
It is easy to feel trampled by the relentless march of technology...
6 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A march is a piece of music with a regular rhythm that you can march to.
A military band played Russian marches and folk tunes.
7 [PHRASE] PHR after v
If you give someone their marching orders, you tell them that you no longer want or need them, for example as your employee or as your lover. (BRIT; in AM, use walking papers)
What does it take for a woman to say `that's enough' and give her man his marching orders?
8 [PHRASE] V inflects, oft PHR on n
If you steal a march on someone, you start doing something before they do it in order to gain an advantage over them.
If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.