Marching

Definitions: Marching

Marching

Adjective

1. Walking steadily and rhythmically and in step with others; "a line of marching soldiers".

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "marching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Marching

Journey

Roving, vagrancy, pererration; marching and countermarching; nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism; gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration; wanderlust.

Crosswords: Marching

It's the Boy Scout marching song. (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

Marching Orders Standard Operating Procedure, Rifle Security Company, Guatanamo Bay, Cuba. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I love you more than marching bands and cookie-making. (The Other Sister; writing credit: Alexandra Rose; Blair Richwood)

You will sell it to raise money for the marching band. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

He was in Ross' class marching band. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

The marching band refused to yield ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean)

Marching the Colours (1952)

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

Marching On! (1943)

When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)

Marching Along (1933)

I Ain't Marching Anymore (performing artist: Phil Ochs)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition (reference)

• Marching Through Culpeper : A Novel of Culpeper, Virginia, Crossroads of the Civil War (reference)

• Marching Through Peachtree (reference)

• Our Marching Band (reference)

• The Ants Go Marching (Wee Sing Board Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• John Canemaker - Marching to a Different Toon (reference)

• Tune Buddies - Here Comes A Marching Band (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Marching Down Bourbon Street (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Marching the prisoners at Bilibid Prison Some Coast Surveyors were incarcerated here by the Japanese in WWII.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A cottonwood arches over a scene of saguaros marching up a wall near Old Deer Creek.Credit: Christine Maxa.

[Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Medical & Sanitary Affairs] : [Japanese soldiers with marching equipment].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopters are towed to their launching positions on the ship's flight deck, 20 March 1960. Note groups of Marines marching aft to board their helicopters.Credit: NAVY.

Yankee volunteers marching into Dixie / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston.Credit: Library of Congress.

Crowd marching and log cabin in background with "Tipacanoe & Tyler Too" sign.Credit: Library of Congress.

Long marching line of political activists (?).Credit: Library of Congress.

When the President comes marching home.Credit: Library of Congress.

Adolf Hitler marching in formation.Credit: Library of Congress.

Concentration camp at Emsland, Germany - prisoners marching, with two guards in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An old man, who appeared very old, was marching with this band.

Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion that the woman who had written A Walking Tour of the British Coastline, the book he was carrying in his backpack, had never been on a walking tour of any kind, and would probably not recognize the British coastline if it were to dance through her bedroom at the head of a marching band, singing 'I'm the British Coastline' in a loud and cheerful voice while accompanying itself on the kazoo.

Heavy hard fingers marching on the frets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

United Kingdom

Of the 3,440 parades held between April 2000 and March 2001, 235 were considered contentious; the Parades Commission imposed restrictions on 175. In July the Parades Commission barred one of the loyalist Orange Order processions from marching. (references)

Bolivia

On July 2, demonstrations by small debtors (who had been protesting off and on for over 3 months) outside the Superintendency of Banks turned violent when protesters seized almost 100 hostages and strapped dynamite to some of them; the hostages were released early on July 3. On March 22, acting on the orders of the Minister of Government, police peacefully rounded up and returned about 50 marching protesters to the town of Cocachamba, where they were released upon arrival. (references)

Economic History

Solomon Islands

A native movement known as the Marching Rule defied government authority. (references)

Human Rights

Guinea

There was no further information on the February 2000 incident in which police detained approximately 30 students who were marching to protest poor conditions in school. (references)

Rwanda

No action was taken against the three soldiers who harassed and beat the wife of Vales Kwitegetse, a journalist with the government-controlled newspaper Imvaho, in 2000. No action was taken during the year against RPA soldiers involved in the following 2000 cases in the DRC: The rapes of numerous women in Kisangani in May and June; and the February killings and rapes of 30 persons in Kilambo, North Kivu Province, DRC. No further action was taken in the 1999 case in which RCD forces, participating with or supported by the RPA, reportedly buried 15 women alive at Mwenga, DRC. No action was taken, and none is likely to be taken, against the police who reportedly beat and arrested six university students who were marching to the Prime Minister's office in 1999. Prison conditions are harsh and life threatening. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

According to the PSNI, there were 28 arson/bomb attacks and 3 other acts of violence directed at both Protestant and Catholic churches in Northern Ireland during 2000. Such sectarian violence often coincides with heightened tensions during the spring and summer marching season. (references)

Travel

Uk

In recent years, there has been widespread civil unrest throughout Northern Ireland during the summer marching season (July and August). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "marching": File marching ♦ give smb. his marching orders ♦ in marching order ♦ marching ground ♦ marching in step ♦ Marching money ♦ marching music ♦ marching off ♦ marching orders ♦ Marching regiment ♦ marching song ♦ marching tune ♦ marching up. Additional references.

Beginning with "marching": marching-pace, marching-song.

Ending with "marching": counter-marching, frog-marching, half-marching, route-marching, ski-marching.

Albanian

marshimi (March), marshim (hike, March, walking). (various references)

Bulgarian 

маршируване, линеен (lineal, linear, running). (various references)

Chinese 

前进 (Advance, Advancing, Marched). (various references)

Czech

pustit koho k vodì (dump smb., give smb. his marching orders). (various references)

Finnish

marssikäsky (marching orders), marssijärjestys (marching order). (various references)

German

marschierenden, marschierend. (various references)

Hebrew 

צעי�"�" (stepping, tread, walk). (various references)

Hungarian

menetelés (March). (various references)

Indonesian

drumband (marching band). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

出動 (going out, sailing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅつどう (going out, sailing). (various references)

Korean 

행군. (various references)

Manx

troagyraght (hike, hiking, march, tramp, tramp walk, trudge). (various references)

Pig Latin

archingmay

Portuguese

marcha (gait, going, headway, hike, March, pace, process, rate, run, running, trudge, walk, walking), revista de tropas (parade), em marcha (agoing, on, underway). (various references)

Romanian

în formaţie de marş (in marching order). (various references)

Russian 

маршировка, походный. (various references)

Scottish

mèarsadh, m� rsadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

marširanje, marševanje, kretanje (coasting, development, locomotion, motion, trend). (various references)

Spanish

instrucción de orden cerrado, de marcha. (various references)

Swedish

marscherande, tåg (expedition, March, procession, rope, train, trains). (various references)

Turkmen 

nyzam (formation). (various references)

Ukranian 

марширування, похідний (derivative). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "marching": countermarching, outmarching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Marching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mancheng, Marcheini, Marchena, Marchi, Marchionni, Marcigny, marhcing, marocain, marocains, Marochnik, marsting, Maschino, Meeching, Murchan, Nanchang. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: charming.

-1 letter: arching, chagrin, charing, harming.

-2 letters: aching, arcing, arming, caring, chimar, grinch, haring, harmin, inarch, macing, margin, racing.

-3 letters: acing, amnic, cairn, chain, chair, chang, charm, china, chirm, cigar, gamic, gamin, garni, grain, ihram, inarm, magic, manic, march, micra, naric, ranch.

-4 letters: agin, airn, amin, amir, arch, cain, carn, cham, char, chia, chin, crag, cram, gain, girn, gnar, gram, gran, grim, grin, hair, hang, harm, inch, mach, magi, main, mair, marc, mica, mina, narc, nigh, ragi, rain, rami, rang, rani, rich, ring.

-5 letters: aim, ain, air, ami, ani, arc, arm, cam, can, car, chi, cig, gam, gan, gar, ghi, gin, hag, ham, hic, him, hin, ich, mac, mag, man, mar, mig, mir, nag, nah, nam, nim, rag, rah, ram, ran, ria, rig, rim, rin.

+2 letters: becharming, chambering, chamfering, charminger, charmingly, rematching, uncharming.

+3 letters: archegonium, chairmaning, charmingest, merchanting, mischarging, monographic, nomographic, outcharming, outmarching, phonogramic.

+4 letters: benchmarking, camphorating, chairmanning, checkmarking, overmatching, phonogrammic, scrimshawing.

+5 letters: achromatizing, benchmarkings, cholangiogram, cinematograph, histaminergic, hydromagnetic, jackhammering, merchandising, merchandizing, micrographing.

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