marshal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English marschal, from Anglo-Norman mareschal (“farrier; military commander”), from Medieval Latin mariscalcus (“groom, army commander, court dignitary”), either from Frankish *marhaskalk, or Old High German marah-scalc (“horse-servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *marh + *skalk (whence Old Saxon maraskalk, marahscalc). Compare English mare + shalk.
Inflected forms:
form: marshals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marshall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: mareschal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: marshals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marshaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: marshalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: marshaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: marshaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: marshalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: marshalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: marshall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
form: mareschal
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal.
pos: noun
examples: Where stands Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in this conflict of opinion concerning the tactics which China should adopt towards the aggressor? Chiang Kai-shek, according to officials who know his mind with whom I have talked, is all for resistance- as soon as he thinks he can win!
gloss: A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering.
pos: noun
gloss: A federal lawman.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An official responsible for signalling track conditions to drivers (through use of flags), extinguishing fires, removing damaged cars from the track, and sometimes providing emergency first aid.
pos: noun
gloss: To arrange (troops, etc.) in line for inspection or a parade.
pos: verb
examples: Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
gloss: To arrange (facts, etc.) in some methodical order.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.
This train is formed only of "Blue Spot" wagons for London; vans for Mac Fisheries Finsbury Park depot are marshalled at the rear to be detached at Finsbury Park.
gloss: To ceremoniously guide, conduct or usher.
pos: verb
examples: Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way
UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe:
Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]
gloss: To gather data for transmission.
pos: verb
gloss: To serialize an object into a marshalled state represented by a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: unmarshal
decode
deserialize
unserialize
Derived words: air chief marshal
air marshal
air vice-marshal
archmarshal
court-marshal
earl marshal
field marshal
fire marshal
knight marshal
marshalate
marshalcy
marshaless
marshal of the air force
marshal of the RAF
marshalship
marshal together
provost marshal
sky marshal
submarshal
velt-marshal
marshaler
remarshal
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