different between confine vs march

English

Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin conf?nis.

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: k?nf?n?, IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?n/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nfa?n/
  • (US) enPR: kän?f?n, IPA^(key): /?k?nfa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)

1. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 467:

     ‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’

2. (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.]
   • 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,^[1]

     He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

Translations

Noun

confine (plural confines)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

Synonyms

• (limit): border, bound, limit

Derived terms

• confineless

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fin/
• Homophones: confinent, confines

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular present indicative of confiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of confiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of confiner
5. second-person singular imperative of confiner

Italian

Etymology

From Latin conf?nis.

Noun

confine m (plural confini)

1. border, frontier
2. boundary

Synonyms

• limite

Related terms

• confinante
• confinare
• confinario
• confino

Latin

Adjective

c?nf?ne

1. nominative neuter singular of c?nf?nis
2. accusative neuter singular of c?nf?nis
3. vocative neuter singular of c?nf?nis

Portuguese

Verb

confine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of confinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of confinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of confinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of confinar

Spanish

Verb

confine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of confinar.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??t?/
• (US) enPR: märch, IPA^(key): /m??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *mark?n (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian ???? (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ?emearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
2. A political rally or parade

   Synonyms: protest, parade, rally

3. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
4. Steady forward movement or progression.

   Synonyms: process, advancement, progression

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• démarche
• volksmarch

Translations

Verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

1. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
2. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
3. To go to war; to make military advances.
4. (figuratively) To make steady progress.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *mark?, from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

   Synonyms: frontier, marchland

2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
3. Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

   Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

1. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English merche, from Old English mer?e, mere?e, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (obsolete) Smallage.

   Synonym: smallage

See also

• stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• charm

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mars

Etymology

From English March.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart??/

Noun

march (Bengali script ?????)

1. March

Synonyms

• choi•etja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Danish

Etymology

From French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”), a Frankish loanword, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“to mark, notice”). The interjection is borrowed form the French imperative of this verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]

Noun

march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

1. march

Interjection

march

1. march! (an order)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar?/

Noun

march m (plural meirch)

1. horse, steed, stallion

Derived terms

• marchog (“knight, horserider”)

Compounds

• cadfarch (“steed”)
• corfarch (“pony”)
• dynfarch (“centaur”)
• marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
• marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
• marchfintys (“horsemint”)
• marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
• cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
• gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)

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