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Ride

noun

1.

A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile). Synonym: drive.

2.

A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement.

verb

(past rode, archaic rid; past part. ridden, archaic rid; pres. part. riding)

1.

Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions. Synonym: sit. "Did you ever ride a camel?" , "The girl liked to drive the young mare"

2.

Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle. "He rides the subway downtown every day"

3.

Continue undisturbed and without interference.

4.

Move like a floating object.

5.

Harass with persistent criticism or carping. Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit. "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" , "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

6.

Be sustained or supported or borne. "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. Synonym: drive. "My new truck drives well"

8.

Be contingent on. Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on. "Your grade will depends on your homework"

9.

Lie moored or anchored.

10.

Sit on and control a vehicle. "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"

11.

Climb up on the body. "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"

12.

Ride over, along, or through.

13.

Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot.

14.

Copulate with. Synonym: mount.

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"Ride" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the city. It had been cold enough before, but the threatened storm foreboded that it would be worse yet before morning. The people crowded in a warm and brilliant church cast wandering glances from the preacher to the painted windows, beyond which the night lay darkly, thought of the ride home in ...

— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... character of this idol worship which I claim for it. Similarly the overthrow of the temple at Goodmanham, Godmundingham, described by Beda, ii. cap. 13, with its priest who was not allowed to carry arms, or to ride on any but a mare, is the destruction of a successful local cult, not of a national or tribal religion. I confess that Dr. Greenwell's observations in connection with his barrow discoveries (British Barrows, 286-331) are in favour ...

— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme

... Dieppe, where we arrived at nine o'clock. After a delay of an hour we entered a railway carriage fitted up in a very beautiful and luxurious style. At Dieppe we had no trouble with our passports, keeping the originals, and simply showing them to the custom-house officials. Our ride to Paris was in the ...

— Paris: With Pen and Pencil - Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business • David W. Bartlett

... Indians engaged in killing the buffaloe, the hunters mounted on horseback and armed with bows and arrows encircle the herd, and gradually drive them into a plain or an open place fit for the movements of horse; they then ride in among them, and singling out a buffaloe, a female being preferred, go as close as possible and wound her with arrows till they think they have given the mortal stroke; when they pursue another ...

— History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

... statesmen of two generations have agreed with each other in supporting would be the only measure which Mr. Southey would have agreed with himself in opposing. He has passed from one extreme of political opinion to another, as Satan in Milton went round the globe, contriving constantly to "ride with darkness." Wherever the thickest shadow of the night may at any moment chance to fall, there is Mr. Southey. It is not everybody who could have so dexterously avoided blundering on the daylight in the course of ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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