Parade vs Cruise - What's the difference?
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An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
Any succession, series, or display of items.
A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
* Jonathan Swift
(Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
* John Locke
A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
To march or to display.
To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
To march past.
A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
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, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
(lb) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
(lb) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
To win easily and convincingly.
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(wikipedia parade)Noun
(en noun)- The floats and horses in the parade were impressive, but the marching bands were really amazing.
- The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
- a parade of shops
- Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade .
- when they are not in parade , and upon their guard
- He was parked on Chester Parade .
Derived terms
* hit parade * military parade * victory parade * pride parade * techno parade * parade of horribles * ticker tape parade * rain on someone's paradeVerb
(parad)- They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.
- They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
- Parading all her sensibility. Byron.
- After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
