'RIDE' definitions:

Definition of 'ride'

From: WordNet
noun
A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car" [syn: drive, ride]
noun
A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
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" [syn: ride, sit]
verb
Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" [ant: walk]
verb
Continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride"
verb
Move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night sky"
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" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, 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"
verb
Have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: drive, ride]
verb
Be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn: depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon]
verb
Lie moored or anchored; "Ship rides at anchor"
verb
Sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
verb
Climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"
verb
Ride over, along, or through; "Ride the freeways of California"
verb
Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; "Don't ride the clutch!"
verb
Copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" [syn: ride, mount]

Definition of 'Ride'

From: GCIDE
  • Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. Rode (r[=o]d) (Rid [r[i^]d], archaic); p. p. Ridden(Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Riding.] [AS. r[imac]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[imac]tan, Icel. r[imac][eth]a, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. [1913 Webster]
  • The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. [1913 Webster]
  • Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To be supported in motion; to rest. [1913 Webster]
  • Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian. [1913 Webster]
  • He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Drive.
  • Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • "Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. --W. Black. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ride'

From: GCIDE
  • Ride \Ride\, v. t.
  • 1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [1913 Webster]
  • [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. [1913 Webster]
  • The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. [1913 Webster]
  • Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ride'

From: GCIDE
  • Ride \Ride\, n.
  • 1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'ride'

From: GCIDE
  • Bodkin \Bod"kin\ (b[o^]d"k[i^]n), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag.]
  • 1. A dagger. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a stiletto; an eyeleteer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out letters from a column or page in making corrections. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. [1913 Webster]
  • Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. [1913 Webster]
  • To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

Acronyms for 'RIDE'

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