 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ride
noun
1: a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else; "he took the
family for a drive in his new car" [syn: {drive}]
2: a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or
excitement
verb
1: 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: {sit}]
2: 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}]
3: continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride"
4: move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the
night sky"
5: 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}]
6: 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"
7: have certain properties when driven; "This car rides
smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: {drive}]
8: be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the
electin"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn:
{depend on}, {devolve on}, {depend upon}, {turn on}, {hinge
on}, {hinge upon}]
9: lie moored or anchored; "Ship rides at anchor"
10: sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work
every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through
town"
11: climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt
keeps riding up my legs"
12: ride over, along, or through; "Travel the highways of
America"; "Ride the freeways of California"
13: keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with
the foot; "Don't ride the clutch!"
14: copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" [syn: {mount}]
[also: {rode}, {ridden}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, verb (used without an object) [imp. {Rode} (r[=o]d) ({Rid} [r[i^]d],
archaic); p. p. {Ridden}({Rid}, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Riding}.] [AS. r[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G.
reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][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.
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.
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.
''Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord
Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that
morning. --W. Black.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, verb (used with an object)
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.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, noun
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bodkin \Bod"kin\ (b[o^]d"k[i^]n), noun [OE. boydekyn dagger; of
uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir.
bideog, Gael. biodag.]
1. A dagger. [Obs.]
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin. --Shak.
2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc.,
with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a
stiletto; an eyeleteer.
3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out
letters from a column or page in making corrections.
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.
Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. --Pope.
5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
{To sit}, {ride}, or {travel bodkin}, to sit closely wedged
between two persons. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "ride":
Sunday drive, abut on, aggravate, airing, annoy, auto, badger,
bait, bamboozle, banter, be at, be based on, bear on, bedevil,
beset, bestraddle, bestride, bicycle, bike, bother, bristle,
brown off, bug, bully, bullyrag, bump off, burn up, bus,
catch a train, chaff, chauffeur, cheat, chivy, cycle, deceive,
defraud, delude, deride, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb,
dog, dominate, drift, drive, entrain, exasperate, excursion,
exercise, expedition, fash, float, foot, get, ghost, glide,
go by rail, grin at, gripe, gull, harass, harry, hassle, haze,
heckle, hector, hold in derision, hound, humbug, imbricate,
intimidate, irk, irritate, jape, jaunt, jest, jive, joke, jolly,
josh, journey, joyride, kid, lap, laugh at, laugh to scorn,
lean on, lie, lie athwart, lie on, lift, make a train, make fun of,
make game of, make heavy weather, make merry with, miff, molest,
motor, motorcycle, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outing,
outride, overlie, override, pan, pedal, peeve, perch, persecute,
pester, pick on, pickup, pillory, pique, plague, plow the deep,
pluck the beard, point at, poke fun at, pother, provoke, put on,
put one on, rag, rally, razz, rely on, repose on, rest, rest on,
rib, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, ride out,
ride the sea, ridicule, rile, roast, roil, ruffle, run, sail, scud,
shingle, shoot, sit in, sit on, skim, slip, smile at, snicker at,
snigger at, spin, stand on, straddle, stride, swindle, take,
take a joyride, take in, taxi, tease, terrorize, torment, torture,
tour, trick, trip, try the patience, turn, tweak the nose, twit,
tyrannize, vex, walk the waters, wash, weather, weather the storm,
wheel, whirl, worry
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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