different between fronter vs march

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt?(?)

Adjective

fronter

1. (phonetics) comparative form of front: more front
   • 2004, Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W. Schneider, A Handbook of Varieties of English: A Multimedia Reference Tool, Volume 1, page 621,

     In the word start, the Maori English vowel is somewhat fronter, despite our general observation that BATH/START is backer than in Pakeha New Zealand English.

   • 2004, Elizabeth Gordon, New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution, page 149,

     Similarly, diphthong shift of /au/ (the MOUTH vowel) involves a first element fronter than [A] or closer (higher) than [a], for example [k??] cow; diphthong shift of /ei/ (the FACE vowel) has a first element more open (lower) than [e], as in [pl??s] place (cf. RP [ple?s]); diphthong shift of /ou/ (the GOAT vowel) involves a first element fronter and/or more open (lower) than [o], for example /k??t/ coat (cf. RP [k??t]).

   • 2007, Terry Lynn Irons, On the Southern Shift in Appalachian English, page 122,

     The full development is Quadrant 4 in which /e/ is fully reversed in relation to /ey/, both fronter and higher.

Noun

fronter (plural fronters)

1. A person who or thing that fronts.
   • 1947 October 11, The Billboard, Gov?t Checks Ork Disk $$$, page 20,

     In the case of musicker?s salaries, the IR Department asks a recording band fronter to show if a fixed salary is guarantted to sideman, irrespective of the hours worked; […] .

   • 2002, Joe Catal, Telesales Tips from the Trenches: Secrets of a Street-Smart Salesman, page 167,

     Another point I'd like to bring up is the use of fronters. These are people who prospect for you.

   • 2012, D. Shadel, Outsmarting the Scam Artists: How to Protect Yourself From the Most Clever Cons, unnumbered page,

     By attending investment seminars or trade shows or dropping a business card off at a booth, you are sending a message that you are someone who is motivated to invest, which makes you more likely to say yes when the fronter calls on the phone.

Anagrams

• Fortner, for rent, refront

Middle English

Noun

fronter

1. Alternative form of frounter

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fronter m

1. indefinite plural of front

Swedish

Noun

fronter

1. indefinite plural of front

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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