(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.
Parch
Definition:
(v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
(v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.
(v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has led to parched soils and difficult growing conditions for farmers, as well as to river levels that are dangerously low for wildlife.
(2) "Because of the heat, lakes and other water bodies have been reduced to parched land, making dehydration common in such birds," said Neeraj Srivastava, a wildlife campaigner.
(3) In Garbey, a village in a parched landscape of rocky soil covered with a thin layer of sand, with very few trees, the men are building a rock wall to channel the next rains, due in June-July, into the reservoir.
(4) A bigger rise of 3-4C — the smallest increase we can prudently expect to follow inaction — would parch continents, turning farmland into desert.
(5) "I was standing on the public path looking at the grass near the stones and thinking we needed to find a longer hosepipe to get the parched patches to green up," he said.
(6) Record El Niño set to cause hunger for 10 million poorest, Oxfam warns Read more The chance of a drier than normal October for southern Australia is about 70%, with the probability rising to 80% in Victoria where the state government is attempting to find ways to get water to parched areas in the west of the state.
(7) Any heavy rainfall will be welcome news for thirsty California, parched for the last four years by a historic dry period.
(8) On the parched grass not far from the India Gate monument at the centre of Delhi, they stretch, breathe and meditate.
(9) (5) The measures to prevent cooking loss are (a) eating the boiled food with the soup, (b) addition of small amount of salt (about 1% NaCl) in boiling, (c) avoidance of too much boiling, (d) selection of a cooking method causing less mineral loss (stewing, frying or parching).
(10) Arrowroot is the mainstay of the Negro infant's diet, while parched flour or sago is consumed by an East Indian infant more frequently.
(11) The air drops came after reports that children among the stranded population were beginning to die of thirst on the bare, parched mountainside.
(12) The surgical procedures we used were 19 subclavian plasty (Waldhausen), 13 end-to-end anastomosis, 13 Alvarez technique and three goterex parch.
(13) Six patients underwent surgery, 5 with an enlargement parch and 1 with a butterfly parch.
(14) Governor Jerry Brown is championing a proposed $14bn (£9bn) tunnel system to divert water from northern California to southern California's parched cities and farms.
(15) Forecasters have predicted that the south-west monsoon could arrive over the southern state of Kerala as early as today, but it is unlikely to reach the parched north before the end of June.
(16) Why devote a whole page to California’s drought ( In parched California, there’s still plenty of water for nut trees – and for Nestlé’s bottles , 20 April) without questioning why this is happening?
(17) Supplementary feedings often started in late infancy include gruels made from arrowroot, parched flour, and cereal.
(18) (3) The loss of thiamin largest in boiling, followed by baking, parching and frying.
(19) The deep grooves of grief in his brow, his sunken, woeful eyes and dry parched lips a perspicacious sculpture carved in anticipation of this slap of indignity.
(20) The waiting list has grown to three years, leaving many farmers to contemplate parched fields and ruin in what has been one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions.