marching
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) enPR: märʹchĭng, IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːt͡ʃɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: march‧ing
Verb
editmarching
- present participle and gerund of march
Noun
editmarching (countable and uncountable, plural marchings)
- Action described by the verb "to march".
- 1862, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862[1]:
- A pianoforte is desirable, to lead the singing, and accompany the plays, gymnastics, frequent marchings, and dancing, when that is taught,—which it should be.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!
- 1917, War Department, Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry[2]:
- All steps and marchings executed from a halt, except right step, begin with the left foot.
Adjective
editmarching (not comparable)
- That marches.
- a marching band
- Placed or situated in a line or lines, reminiscent or evocative of marching soldiers.
- 1961, Colin Thiele, The Sun on the Stubble, Melbourne: Rigby Limited, page 61:
- [T]he occasional trees, the stone-heaps, the marching fences, the stumps, the saplings, the cows, and the feeding sheep.
Derived terms
editDerived terms
- Bolivian marching powder (marching powder, Colombian marching powder, Peruvian marching powder)
- file marching
- heavy marching order
- marching ants
- marching band
- marching cubes
- marching girl
- marching malady
- marching money
- marching music
- marching order
- marching orders
- marching-past
- marching regiment
- ray marching
- unmarching
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