What's the difference between march and marquisate?

March


Definition:

  • (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
  • (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.
  • (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
  • (v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
  • (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
  • (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.
  • (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
  • (n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
  • (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
  • (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
  • (2) The sensitivity of ejaculated spermatozoa to ouabain (in inhibitor of Na+-K+ ATPase) was determined on 4 consecutive weeks in November, March-April, and July-August.
  • (3) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (4) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
  • (5) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
  • (6) Arena's final April issue goes on sale next Thursday, 12 March.
  • (7) It called for an independent, international inquiry as the only way to achieve full accountability, ahead of the March deadline for the Sri Lankan government to report back to the UN Human Rights Council.
  • (8) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
  • (9) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (10) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
  • (11) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (12) The study was undertaken from March 1984 to February 1985.
  • (13) The first versions, without mobile connectivity, will go on sale worldwide at the end of March, priced from $499 in the US; UK prices are not yet set.
  • (14) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
  • (15) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
  • (16) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.
  • (17) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
  • (18) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
  • (19) The authors report 17 cases of large suprasellar meningiomas operated on during the 2-year period from February 1982 through March 1984.
  • (20) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.

Marquisate


Definition:

  • (n.) The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
  • (2) She won an Olivier award for her role in as the Marquise in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and an Evening Standard gong for playing Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
  • (3) Though counts may cavil and marquises moan , the Spanish parliament, backed by the Spanish electorate, has now put a stop to this kind of discrimination – a policy powerfully endorsed by the king (though succession in the monarchy remains, for the moment, exempt from reform).
  • (4) It deals with various claims and counterclaims of princes, marquises, landgraves, bishops, emperors, dukes and electors, but the "we the peoples," of the UN charter are nowhere to be seen.
  • (5) But while Westphalia enjoined freedom of religion, its modern invokers want to defend the presumed rights of the modern equivalent of those landgraves, marquises, princes and counts, to massacre their own people with impunity.
  • (6) Gilles de la Tourette deserves credit, not only for having regrouped fragmented observations into one remarkably well described clinical entity which held over time (such as Itard's observations nos 9 and 10 in 1825; the latter is the famous Marquise of D ... seen several times by Charcot and the only one which, along with no 1, appears in Gilles de la Tourette's paper), but also for having described the course of this chronic and fluctuating disease.
  • (7) The Bills' third-string quarterback announces himself to the NFL by launching an exocet down the right sideline for Marquise Goodwin, who catches in stride and races away 59 yards for the score.
  • (8) The well-preservedness of the cadaver of the Marquise of Tai once again testifies to the creative wisdom of the labouring class of our ancestors.

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