March vs Course - What's the difference?
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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.
(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
To cause someone to walk somewhere.
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, first = Barbara
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, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 84
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, passage = The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
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To go to war; to make military advances.
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
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(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:
To have common borders or frontiers
(obsolete) Smallage.
A sequence of events.
# A normal or customary sequence.
#* Shakespeare
#* Milton
# A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
# Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
# A learning program, as in a school.
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# A stage of a meal.
# The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
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A path that something or someone moves along.
# The itinerary of a race.
# A racecourse.
# The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
# (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
# (golf) A golf course.
# (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
# (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
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A row or file of objects.
# (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
# (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
# (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
(music) A string on a lute.
(music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
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To run through or over.
* Alexander Pope
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
* Shakespeare
To cause to chase after or pursue game.
(colloquial)
March is a related term of course.
As a proper noun march
is the third month of the gregorian calendar, following february and preceding april abbreviation: mar' or ' .As a verb course is
.march
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) mearc'', ''?emearc "mark, boundary".Noun
(es)- the march of time
Synonyms
* (steady forward movement or progression) process * (political rally) protest, parade, rally * (steady forward movement) advancement, progressionDerived 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 marchVerb
(es)Derived terms
* dismarch * marcher * marching * march off * march on * march to the beat of a different drum * outmarch * overmarch * remarchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(es)- 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.
- Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona.
Synonyms
* (border region) frontier, marchland * (territory) county palatinate, county palatineDerived terms
* Lord Warden of the Marches * marcher * march-gat * march-land * march-man * march parts, march-party * * march stone * march-ward *Verb
Etymology 3
Noun
(es)Synonyms
* (l)course
English
Noun
(en noun)- The course of true love never did run smooth.
- Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course .
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- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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- He appointed the courses of the priests.
Derived terms
* bird course * courseless * courselike * crash course * due course * let nature take its course * massive open online course (MOOC) * of course * off course * on courseVerb
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
- The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
- We coursed him at the heels.
- to course greyhounds after deer