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March vs. Parade — What's the Difference?

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March

March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the second of seven months to have a length of 31 days.

Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind.

March

To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.

Parade

An organized public procession on a festive or ceremonial occasion.

March

To begin to move in such a manner
The troops will march at dawn.
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Parade

The participants in such a procession.

March

To proceed directly and purposefully
Marched in and demanded to see the manager.

Parade

A regular place of assembly for reviews of troops. Also called parade ground.

March

To progress steadily onward; advance
Time marches on.

Parade

A formal review of marching military troops.

March

To participate in an organized walk, as for a public cause.

Parade

The troops taking part in such a review.

March

To cause to move or otherwise progress in a steady rhythmical manner
March soldiers into battle.
Marched us off to the dentist.

Parade

A line or extended group of moving persons or things
A parade of strollers on the mall.

March

To traverse by progressing steadily and rhythmically
They marched the route in a day.

Parade

An extended, usually showy succession
A parade of fads and styles.

March

To have a common boundary
England marches with Scotland.

Parade

An ostentatious show; an exhibition
Make a parade of one's talents.

March

The steady forward movement of a body of troops.

Parade

A public square or promenade.

March

A long tiring journey on foot.

Parade

To take part in a parade; march in a public procession
The circus performers and animals paraded down Main Street.

March

Steady forward movement or progression
The march of time.

Parade

To assemble for a ceremonial military review or other exercise.

March

A regulated pace
Quick march.
Slow march.

Parade

To stroll in public, especially so as to be seen; promenade.

March

The distance covered within a certain period of time by moving or progressing steadily and rhythmically
A week's march away.

Parade

To behave so as to attract attention; show off.

March

(Music) A composition in regularly accented, usually duple meter that is appropriate to accompany marching.

Parade

To cause to take part in a parade
Paraded the floats past city hall.

March

An organized walk or procession by a group of people for a specific cause or issue.

Parade

To assemble (troops) for a ceremonial review.

March

The border or boundary of a country or an area of land; a frontier.

Parade

To march or walk through or around
Parade the campus.

March

A tract of land bordering on two countries and claimed by both.

Parade

To exhibit ostentatiously; flaunt
Paraded their wealth.

March

The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. See Table at calendar.

Parade

An organized display of a group of people, particularly

March

A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

Parade

(military) military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.

March

A political rally or parade

Parade

A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
Thanksgiving Day parade
Ticker-tape parade

March

Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)

Parade

Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.

March

Steady forward movement or progression.
The march of time

Parade

Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.

March

(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

Parade

A place reserved for such displays, particularly

March

A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

Parade

Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.

March

(historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.

Parade

(dated) promenade: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades.

March

Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

Parade

(uncommon) road, used in place names.
His shop is located in Chester Pde.

March

(obsolete) Smallage.

Parade

The people who make up such a display, particularly

March

(intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.

Parade

The body of soldiers thus assembled.

March

(transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.

Parade

The body of promenaders thus assembled.

March

To go to war; to make military advances.

Parade

(figurative) show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.

March

(figurative) To make steady progress.

Parade

A row of shops beside a street.

March

(intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers

Parade

: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.

March

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
The stormy March is come at last,With wind, and cloud, and changing skies.

Parade

(uncommon) parry in both its literal and figurative senses.

March

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.
Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.

Parade

(intransitive) To take part in a parade, particularly

March

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.

Parade

To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.

March

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 marchGoes slow and stately by them.
This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs.

Parade

To march impressively or ostentatiously.
No one fights a war in close-order formations any more but officers still love to force their men to parade, coming up with various plausible excuses for their enjoyment of command.

March

The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

Parade

(transitive) To march past.
After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

March

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.

Parade

(transitive) To march through or along.

March

To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
That was in a strange landWhich marcheth upon Chimerie.

Parade

(figurative) promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.

March

To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

Parade

To move slowly through or among.

March

To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

Parade

To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.

March

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.

Parade

(transitive) To cause to take part in a parade, particularly

March

The month following February and preceding April

Parade

To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.

March

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

Parade

(figurative) show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession.
They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.

March

A steady advance;
The march of science
The march of time

Parade

To furnish with a parade or parades.

March

A procession of people walking together;
The march went up Fifth Avenue

Parade

The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. Also called parade ground.

March

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

Parade

An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

March

Genre of music written for marching;
Sousa wrote the best marches

Parade

Any imposing procession; the movement of any group of people marshaled in military order, especially a festive public procession, which may include a marching band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade.
In state returned the grand parade.

March

A degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture

Parade

A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or exhibition.
Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade.

March

March in a procession;
They processed into the dining room

Parade

Posture of defense; guard.
When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.

March

Force to march;
The Japanese marched their prisoners through Manchuria

Parade

A public walk; a promenade.

March

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

Parade

To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
Parading all her sensibility.

March

March in protest; take part in a demonstration;
Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle

Parade

To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

March

Walk ostentatiously;
She parades her new husband around town

Parade

To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

March

Cause to march or go at a marching pace;
They marched the mules into the desert

Parade

To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review or in a public celebratory parade{3}.

March

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;
Canada adjoins the U.S.
England marches with Scotland

Parade

A ceremonial procession including people marching

Parade

An extended (often showy) succession of persons or things;
A parade of strollers on the mall
A parade of witnesses

Parade

A visible display;
She made a parade of her sorrows

Parade

Walk ostentatiously;
She parades her new husband around town

Parade

March in a procession;
The veterans paraded down the street

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