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Definition

March /mɑ:tʃ/ n [U, C] ( abbr Mar ) မတ္။ march /mɑ:tʃ/ v ၁။ (က) ခ်ီတက္သည္။ Quick march (ie a command to start marching)! ❍ They marched in and took over the town. ❍ The army marched thirty miles over the mountains. (ခ) ေခၚသြားသည္။ They marched the prisoner away. ❍ She was marched into a cell. ၂။ ေဒါင္းတည္ ေမာင္းတည္လွမ္းသည္။ She marched into my office and demanded an apology. ၃။ ခ်ီတက္ ဆႏၵျပသည္။ march for peace ❍ The women marched and chanted. n ၁။ (က) [C] ခ်ီတက္သည့္ခရီး။ စစ္ခ်ီခရီး။ a long/an arduous march ❍ a 50-mile march. (ခ) [sing] ေရွ႕သို႔ တက္ျခင္း။ ေရွ႕သို႔ခ်ီျခင္း။ the relentless march towards the enemy. ၂။ [C] ခ်ီတက္ဆႏၵျပသည့္လူအုပ္။ a peace march ❍ The police made no attempt to break up the march. Compare DEMONSTRATION ၃ See also HUNGER MARCH ၃။ [C] စစ္ခ်ီသီခ်င္း။ စစ္ခ်ီသီခ်င္းပံုစံ ေတး။ a funeral march. ၄။ [sing] the ~ of sth ေရွ႕သို႔ တက္လွမ္းျခင္း။ the march of progress/mechanization. ❏ get one's marching orders ; give sb their marching orders [ IDM ] ( infml or joc ) ေမာင္းထုတ္ ခံရသည္။ ေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ She was totally unreliable, so she got/was given her marching orders. ❏ marcher n ခ်ီတက္ဆႏၵျပသူ။ civil-rights marchers. ❏ march on [ PHRV ] (of abstract nouns) မရပ္မနား ေရွ႕သို႔ ဆက္သည္။ Time/Progress marches on. ❏ march on… [ PHRV ] …သို႔ခ်ီတက္သည္။ The army is marching on Moscow. ❍ Angry demonstrators marched on City Hall. ❏ march past n စစ္ေရးျပအခမ္းအနား။ ❏ march past (sb) [ PHRV ] စစ္ေရးျပအခမ္းအနားျဖင့္ ခ်ီတက္အေလးျပဳၾကသည္။ ❏ on the march [ IDM ] ၁။ ခ်ီတက္ဆဲ။ ခ်ီတက္ေနသည္။ The enemy are on the march. ၂။ အေရးဆိုေနသည္။ ကန္႔ကြက္ဆႏၵျပေနသည္။ The anti-nuclear lobby is on the march again.

Examples

1. They made us march for hours.
2. He told the sergeant to march us for another five miles.
3. Health workers are today marching through the centre of London in protest at government cuts.
4. [march on something] : The day before
5. 50
6. 000 demonstrators had marched on the Pentagon.
7. [march into/out of/up to etc] : She marched into the room without knocking.
8. [march out of/off/to etc] : Both men were marched out of the restaurant.
9. [march on/onwards] : Time marches on.