RIDE

drive, ride

(noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); “he took the family for a drive in his new car”

ride

(noun) a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement

tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride

(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping; “The children teased the new teacher”; “Don’t ride me so hard over my failure”; “His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie”

ride, mount

(verb) copulate with; “The bull was riding the cow”

ride

(verb) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; “Don’t ride the clutch!”

ride

(verb) move like a floating object; “The moon rode high in the night sky”

ride

(verb) ride over, along, or through; “Ride the freeways of California”

ride

(verb) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; “I ride to work in a bus”; “He rides the subway downtown every day”

ride, sit

(verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; “She never sat a horse!”; “Did you ever ride a camel?”; “The girl liked to drive the young mare”

ride

(verb) climb up on the body; “Shorts that ride up”; “This skirt keeps riding up my legs”

ride

(verb) sit on and control a vehicle; “He rides his bicycle to work every day”; “She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town”

ride

(verb) continue undisturbed and without interference; “Let it ride”

ride

(verb) lie moored or anchored; “Ship rides at anchor”

drive, ride

(verb) have certain properties when driven; “This car rides smoothly”; “My new truck drives well”

ride

(verb) be sustained or supported or borne; “His glasses rode high on his nose”; “The child rode on his mother’s hips”; “She rode a wave of popularity”; “The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father’s political name”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid or rode, past participle (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode or ridden)

(intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c, transitive usage from 9th c.]

(intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c, transitive usage from 19th c.]

(transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]

(intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]

(transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]

(transitive) To traverse by riding.

(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

(intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]

(transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]

(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]

(intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]

(intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

(radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.

(music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also copulate

Noun

ride (plural rides)

An instance of riding.

(informal) A vehicle.

An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.

(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

Anagrams

• Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired

Source: Wiktionary

Ride, v. i. [imp. Rode (rod) (Rid [rîd], archaic); p. p. Ridden ( (Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Riding (.] Etym: [AS. ridan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. Road.]

1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. Swift.

2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. Macaulay.

3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. Dryden.

4. To be supported in motion; to rest. Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. Shak. On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! Shak.

5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian. He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. Dryden.

6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables.

– To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently.

– To ride out. (a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] -- To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.

Syn.

– Drive.

– Ride, Drive. Ride originally meant (and is so used throughout the English Bible) to be carried on horseback or in a vehicle of any kind. At present in England, drive is the word applied in most cases to progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park, etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by giving "to travel on horseback" as the leading sense of ride; though he adds "to travel in a vehicle" as a secondary sense. This latter use of the word still occurs to some extent; as, the queen rides to Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an omnibus. "Will you ride over or drive" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. W. Black.

Ride, v. t.

1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. Milton.

2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side. Sir W. Scott.

4. (Surg.)

Definition: To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk.

– To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who is coming up on foot. Fielding.

– To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.

– To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale. to ride the lightning, (Colloq.) to be executed by electrocution in an electric chair.

Ride, n.

1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

2. A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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