March vs Array - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between march and array

is that march is a formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies while array is clothing and ornamentation.

As verbs the difference between march and array

is that march is to walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does while array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.

As a proper noun March

is the third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.

march
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) mearc'', ''?emearc "mark, boundary".
Noun
(es)
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

A political rally or parade

Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see )

Steady forward movement or progression.

the march of time

(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

Synonyms
* (steady forward movement or progression) process * (political rally) protest, parade, rally * (steady forward movement) advancement, progression
Derived terms
* countermarch * dead march * death march * double march * force-march * forced march * freedom march * frog-march, frog march, frog's march * funeral march * gain a march on, get a march on * grand march * hour of march * in a full march * in march * Jacksonian march * Jarvis march * line of march * make a march * march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria * march-on * march-order * march out * march-past * march-time * march tumor, march tumour * march to a different drummer * march to the beat of a different drum * minute of march * on a march * on the march * outmarch * rogue's march * route march, route-march, routemarch * slow march * snowball marches * steal a march * wedding march
Related terms
* * volksmarch
Verb
(es)
To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.

To cause someone to walk somewhere.

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To go to war; to make military advances.

Derived terms
* dismarch * marcher * marching * march off * march on * march to the beat of a different drum * outmarch * overmarch * remarch
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
(es)
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

* , Book V:

Therefore, sir, be my counsayle, rere up your lyege peple and sende kynges and dewkes to loke unto your marchis , and that the mountaynes of Almayne be myghtyly kepte.

(label) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.

The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

* 1819 , (Lord Byron), , IV:

Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona.

Synonyms
* (border region) frontier, marchland * (territory) county palatinate, county palatine
Derived terms
* Lord Warden of the Marches * marcher * march-gat * march-land * march-man * march parts, march-party * * march stone * march-ward *
Related terms
* * marquee * marquess * marchion * marchionat * marchioness * marquis * marquisate * stanmarch
Verb

To have common borders or frontiers

Etymology 3

Noun
(es)
(obsolete) Smallage.

Synonyms
* (l)
Anagrams
* English ergative verbs English terms with multiple etymologies ----
array
English

Noun
(en noun)
Clothing and ornamentation.

(Dryden)

A collection laid out to be viewed in full.

An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.

* Prescott

a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.

drawn up in battle array

* Gibbon

wedged together in the closest array

A large collection.

* Byron

their long array of sapphire and of gold

We offer a dazzling array of choices.

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(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially , a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.

(legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

(military) A militia.

Usage notes
* (any of various data structures) The exact usage of the term , and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".
Derived terms
* * * * *
Antonyms
* (orderly series) disarray
See also
* (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexing
Verb

To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire

He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.

To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal

(legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

(Blackstone)