Decrease and March

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• The month following February and preceding April.
  • synonyms: Mar
• The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind. )
  • usage: "it was a long march"; "we heard the sound of marching"
  • synonyms: marching
• A steady advance.
  • usage: "the march of science"; "the march of time"
• A procession of people walking together.
  • usage: "the march went up Fifth Avenue"
• District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area.
  • usage: "the Welsh marches between England and Wales"
  • synonyms: borderland, border district, marchland
• Genre of music written for marching.
  • usage: "Sousa wrote the best marches"
  • synonyms: marching music
• A degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture.
  • synonyms: Master of Architecture

verb

• March in a procession.
  • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • synonyms: process
• Force to march.
  • usage: "The Japanese marched their prisoners through Manchuria"
• Walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride.
  • usage: "He marched into the classroom and announced the exam"; "The soldiers marched across the border"
• March in protest; take part in a demonstration.
  • usage: "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle"
  • synonyms: demonstrate
• Walk ostentatiously.
  • usage: "She parades her new husband around town"
  • synonyms: parade, exhibit
• Cause to march or go at a marching pace.
  • usage: "They marched the mules into the desert"
• Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.
  • usage: "Canada adjoins the U. S."; "England marches with Scotland"
  • synonyms: border, adjoin, edge, abut, butt, butt against, butt on

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
• (n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
• (v.i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
• (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
• (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
• (v.i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate or stately manner; to advance steadily.
• (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

• Shakespearean: 'King Henry IV, Part 1' Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March. 'King Henry the Sixth, Part Iii' Edward, Earl of March and son to Richard Plantagenet, afterwards King Edward IV
• Celtic: Horse, Boisterous, Strong, Faithful, Ideas rather conservative
• Latin: Walk Forth