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Ride

//ɹaɪd// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
An instance of riding.
"Can I have a ride on your bike?"
2
a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) wordnet
3
A vehicle. informal
"That's a nice ride; what did it cost?"
4
a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement wordnet
5
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
"the kids went on all the rides"

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6
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
"Can you give me a ride home?"
7
A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. UK
""Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?" "I could see down it till it went round the corner."... "...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field...""
8
A saddle horse. UK, archaic, dialectal
"Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride."
9
A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive. Ireland
"Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M."
10
A steady rhythmical style.
11
Ellipsis of ride cymbal. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
12
A wild, bewildering experience of some duration. figuratively
"That story was a ride from start to finish."
13
An act of sexual intercourse. slang, vulgar
"I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast."
14
A district inspected by an excise officer.
15
A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc. historical

Verb

1
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. ambitransitive
"I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office."
2
harass with persistent criticism or carping wordnet
3
To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. ambitransitive
"Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore."
4
copulate with wordnet
5
To transport (someone) in a vehicle. South-Africa, US, informal, transitive
"The cab rode him downtown."

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6
keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot wordnet
7
Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. intransitive
"Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]"
8
move like a floating object wordnet
9
To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. intransitive, transitive
"The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick."
10
ride over, along, or through wordnet
11
To traverse by riding. transitive
"Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances."
12
be carried or travel on or in a vehicle wordnet
13
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. transitive
"How many races have you ridden this year?"
14
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions wordnet
15
To exploit or take advantage of (a situation). figuratively, transitive
"Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam?"
16
climb up on the body wordnet
17
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle. intransitive
"A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast."
18
sit on and control a vehicle wordnet
19
To mount (someone) to have sex with them. ambitransitive, slang
"She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again."
20
continue undisturbed and without interference wordnet
21
To have sex with (someone). Ireland, ambitransitive, slang
22
lie moored or anchored wordnet
23
To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). colloquial, transitive
"“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off."
24
be contingent on wordnet
25
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. intransitive
"In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit."
26
have certain properties when driven wordnet
27
To rely, depend (on). intransitive
"With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February."
28
be sustained or supported or borne wordnet
29
Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). intransitive
"She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back."
30
To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
31
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
"The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like."
32
To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
33
To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds. transitive
"vocal riding"
34
In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
"The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną (“to ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ- (“to ride”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride, ridj, rir (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Dutch rijden, ryden (“to ride; to drive”), German reiten, reuten (“to ride”), German Low German rieden (“to ride; to drive”), Limburgish rieje (“to ride; to drive”), Luxembourgish reiden (“to ride”), Vilamovian raeita, rajta (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Faroese and Icelandic ríða (“to ride”), Norwegian Bokmål ri, ride (“to ride”), Norwegian Nynorsk ri, rida, ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”). From Indo-European: Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin irrītō (“to excite, incite, stimulate; to exasperate”), Ancient Greek ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to move, stir”), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Russian ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to fly, hover, soar”), Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to get up; to rise up”), Northern Kurdish rîtin (“to shit”), Persian ریدن (ridan, “to shit; to fuck up, to screw up”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Hittite 𒅈𒉡𒊻𒍣 (ar-nu-uz-zi, “to address, send”), Sanskrit रीति (rīti, “course, motion; current, stream; line, row”).

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