What is the difference between rally and march?
rally | march |
A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
* Dryden
* Tillotson
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
(business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
* Addison
* Gay
Good-humoured raillery.
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.
* {{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.
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To go to war; to make military advances.
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
* , Book V:
(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.
March is a synonym of rally.
As nouns the difference between rally and march
is that rally is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause while march is a formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.As verbs the difference between rally and march
is that rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite while march is to walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.As a proper noun March is
the third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.rally
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .Noun
(rallies)Hyponyms
* (increase in value) (l)Verb
(en-verb)- The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
- Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
Synonyms
* (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (increase in value) (l)Derived terms
* rallying pointEtymology 2
(etyl) railler. See .Verb
(en-verb)- Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
- Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
Noun
(-)References
* ----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.