transcription, транскрипция: [ mɑ:(r)tʃ ]
( marches, marching, marched)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
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...
VERB : V prep / adv , V n adv / prep , V amount / n , also V
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March is also a noun.
After a short march, the column entered the village.
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2.
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...
VERB : V prep / adv
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March is also a noun.
Organisers expect up to 300,000 protesters to join the march.
N-COUNT
• march‧er
(marchers)
Fights between police and marchers lasted for three hours.
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3.
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.
VERB : V prep / adv
4.
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.
VERB : V n prep / adv
5.
The march of something is its steady development or progress.
It is easy to feel trampled by the relentless march of technology...
N-SING : usu the N of n
6.
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.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
7.
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?
PHRASE : PHR after v
8.
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.
PHRASE : V inflects , oft PHR on n