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English Dictionary: Parade... by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Parade \Pa*rade"\, v. i.
      1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by
            walking in a public place.
  
      2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and
            inspection; to form or march, as in review.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Parade \Pa*rade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an
      assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled
      to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See {Pare}, v.
      t.]
      1. The ground where a military display is held, or where
            troops are drilled.
  
      2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of
            troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions
            before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades
            are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or
            company), according to the force assembled.
  
      3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
  
                     Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift.
  
      4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing
            procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military
            order; as, a parade of firemen.
  
                     In state returned the grand parade.   --Swift.
  
      5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]
  
                     When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      6. A public walk; a promenade.
  
      {Dress parade}, {Undress parade}. See under {Dress}, and
            {Undress}.
  
      {Parade rest}, a position of rest for soldiers, in which,
            however, they are required to be silent and motionless.
            --Wilhelm.
  
      Syn: Ostentation; display; show.
  
      Usage: {Parade}, {Ostentation}. Parade is a pompous
                  exhibition of things for the purpose of display;
                  ostentation now generally indicates a parade of
                  virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be
                  honored. [bd]It was not in the mere parade of royalty
                  that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.[b8]
                  --Robertson. [bd]We are dazzled with the splendor of
                  titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of
                  victories.[b8] --Spectator.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Parade \Pa*rade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paraded}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Parading}.] [Cf. F. parader.]
      1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
  
                     Parading all her sensibility.            --Byron.
  
      2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or
            march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Parade, SD
      Zip code(s): 57647

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   PARADE
  
      PARallel Applicative Database Engine.   A project at Glasgow
      University to construct a transaction-processor in the
      parallel {functional programming} language {Haskell} to run on
      an {ICL} {EDS+} database machine.
  
  
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