march /ˈmɑrʧ/
 進行,行軍,步伐,長途跋涉,進行曲,邊界(vi.)進軍,前進,交界(vt.)使行軍


 march /ˈmɑrʧ/ 名詞
 前進,進行,通過


 March n.  The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
 The stormy March is come at last,
 With wind, and cloud, and changing skies.   --Bryant.
 As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent.


 March, n.  A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
    Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland.   --Fuller.
    Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.   --Tennyson.


 March, v. i.  To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.]
 That was in a strange land
 Which marcheth upon Chimerie.   --Gower.
 To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.


 March, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marched p. pr. & vb. n. Marching.]
 1. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
 2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.


 March, v. t. To cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
    March them again in fair array.   --Prior.


 March, n.
 1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
    These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march.   --Bacon.
 2. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement; as, the march of time.
 With solemn march
 Goes slow and stately by them.   --Shak.
    This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs.   --Buckle.
 3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
 4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
    The drums presently striking up a march.   --Knolles.
 To make a march, Card Playing, to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

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 March
      n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: Mar]
      2: the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially
         in a procession of some kind); "it was a long march"; "we
         heard the sound of marching" [syn: marching]
      3: a steady advance; "the march of science"; "the march of
         time"
      4: a procession of people walking together; "the march went up
         Fifth Avenue"
      5: district consisting of the area on either side of a border
         or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches
         between England and Wales" [syn: borderland, {border
         district, marchland]
      6: genre of music written for marching; "Sousa wrote the best
         marches" [syn: marching music]
      7: a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced
         study of architecture [syn: Master of Architecture]
      v 1: march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room"
           [syn: process]
      2: force to march; "The Japanese marched their prisoners
         through Manchuria"
      3: walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a
         stride; "He marched into the classroom and announced the
         exam"; "The soldiers marched across the border"
      4: march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands
         demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of
         the most powerful economic nations in Seattle" [syn: demonstrate]
      5: walk ostentatiously; "She parades her new husband around
         town" [syn: parade, exhibit]
      6: cause to march or go at a marching pace; "They marched the
         mules into the desert"
      7: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins
         the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border,
          adjoin, edge, abut, butt, butt against, {butt
         on]