different between march vs sneak

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.

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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”)

Mutation

English

Etymology

Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English sn?can (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *sn?kan, from Proto-Germanic *sn?kan? (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sni?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

sneak (plural sneaks)

1. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.

2. The act of sneaking
3. A cheat; a con artist.

   Synonyms: con artist, trickster; see also Thesaurus:confidence trickster, Thesaurus:deceiver

4. An informer; a tell-tale.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant

5. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
6. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
   • 2014, Faye McKnight, Goodnight, Bob (page 9)

     We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks. In the big city, the young population wore loafers or boots.

7. (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.

Translations

Verb

sneak (third-person singular simple present sneaks, present participle sneaking, simple past and past participle sneaked or snuck)

1. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.

   Synonym: skulk

2. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.

3. (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.

4. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
   • 1701, William Wake, A rationale upon some texts of Scripture

     [Slander] sneaks its head.

5. (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.

   Synonyms: grass, snitch, tell tales

Usage notes

• The past and past participle snuck is primarily found in North American English, where it originated in the late 19th century as a dialectal form. It is still regarded as informal by some, but its use appears to be increasing in frequency and acceptability. It is occasionally found in British and Australian/Hiberno-English, too, though regarded as an American form. (See Oxford Dictionaries, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Webster's New World College Dictionary.)
• Informally, snook is also often found as the past tense. It is considered nonstandard.
• To sneak (take) something is not the same as to steal something. In this sense, sneak typically implies trying to avoid a supervisor's or guardian's mild displeasure or mild discipline, while steal indicates a more serious action and often the person stealing does not know the owner of the item being stolen.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

sneak (not comparable)

1. In advance; before release to the general public.

2. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

Derived terms

• sneak attack
• sneak peek
• sneak preview

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, Snake, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, snake

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sneak

Verb

sneak

1. first-person singular present indicative of sneaken
2. imperative of sneaken