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march | trod |

As a proper noun march

is the third month of the gregorian calendar, following february and preceding april abbreviation: mar' or ' .

As a verb trod is

(tread) or trod can be to walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread.

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.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 84 , url = , passage = The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house. }}
  • 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 ----

    trod

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tread)
    • English irregular simple past forms

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (trodd)
  • To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
  • * 1813 , The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803
  • *:Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason
  • * 1833 , Timothy Flint, The history and geography of the Mississippi Valley
    • It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.
  • * 1866 , Fanny Fisher, Ainsworth's heir
  • *:They bore him to his chamber, where he lay all pale and tearless, like some broken reed, Some helpless shrub, all crushed and trodded down
  • * 1895 , Uchimura Kanzo, The Diary of a Japanese Convert
  • *:Yet alas! I see around me the trodding of the same old paths, each trying to excel the other how to ape the good old ministers who were "very much liked by their parishioners."
  • * 1962 , American Motorcyclist , February, page 16
  • *:Land of mystery and enchantment, continent of contrast and extremes, where adventure awaits those who dare to defy convention and choose to trod the unfamiliar path.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 23, author=Matt Weiland, title=Walker in the City, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Happily, he writes the way he walks: at a vigorous lope, both attentive to the varied soils of the ground he trods and curious about the dust and dandelions over the next hill. }}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 18, author=Sonia Day, title=Nip that gardening zeal in the bud, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=And avoid trodding on the inevitably wet soil around the base of the shrubs as you work. }} ----