Ride
[raɪd]
Definition
(noun.) a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement.
(verb.) copulate with; 'The bull was riding the cow'.
(verb.) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; 'Don't ride the clutch!'.
(verb.) move like a floating object; 'The moon rode high in the night sky'.
(verb.) ride over, along, or through; 'Ride the freeways of California'.
(verb.) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; 'I ride to work in a bus'; 'He rides the subway downtown every day'.
(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'.
(verb.) climb up on the body; 'Shorts that ride up'; 'This skirt keeps riding up my legs'.
(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.) continue undisturbed and without interference; 'Let it ride'.
(verb.) lie moored or anchored; 'Ship rides at anchor'.
(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'.
Editor: Miriam--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
(v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
(v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
(v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
(v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
(v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
(v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
(v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
(v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
(v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
(n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
(n.) A saddle horse.
(n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Editor: Ramon
Definition
v.i. to be borne as on horseback or in a carriage: to practise riding: to manage a horse: to float as a ship at anchor: to move easily: to domineer: to overlap.—v.t. to do or perform by riding as a race: to be carried through: to gallop through: to rest on so as to be carried: to control esp. harshly:—pa.t. rōde; pa.p. rid′den.—n. act of riding: an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle: the course passed over in riding a place for riding: a district inspected by an excise-officer: (print.) a fault caused by the overlapping of leads &c.—adjs. Rī′dable Rī′deable capable of being ridden: passable on horseback.—n. Rī′der one who rides on a horse: one who manages a horse: one who breaks a horse: a commercial traveller: an addition to a document after its completion on a separate piece of paper: an additional clause: a mounted robber: a knight: a small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance to measure the weight: a Dutch gold coin.—adjs. Rī′dered having stakes laid across the bars; Rī′derless without a rider; Rī′ding used to ride or travel: suitable for riding on as a horse.—n. a road for riding on: a district visited by an excise-officer.—n.pl. Rī′ding-bitts the bitts to which a ship's cable is secured when riding at anchor.—ns. Rī′ding-boot a high boot worn in riding; Rī′ding-clerk a mercantile traveller; Rī′ding-commit′tee a committee of ministers sent by the General Assembly to carry out an ordination or induction where the local presbytery refused to act under the Moderate domination in Scotland in the 18th century; Rī′ding-glove a gauntlet; Rī′ding-hab′it the long upper habit garment or skirt worn by ladies when riding; Rī′ding-hood a hood formerly worn by women when riding.—n.pl. Rī′ding-in′terests (Scots law) interests depending on other interests.—ns. Rī′ding-light a light hung out in the rigging at night when a vessel is riding at anchor; Rī′ding-mas′ter one who teaches riding; Rī′ding-rhyme the iambic pentameter heroic verse—from its use in Chaucer's Tales of the Canterbury pilgrims; Rī′ding-robe a riding-habit; Rī′ding-rod a light cane for equestrians; Rī′ding-sail a triangular sail; Rī′ding-school a place where riding is taught esp. a military school; Rī′ding-skirt a skirt fastened round a woman's waist in riding; Ri′ding-spear a javelin; Rī′ding-suit a suit adapted for riding; Rī′ding-whip a switch with short lash used by riders; Bush′-rī′der in Australia a cross-country rider.—Ride a hobby to pursue to excess a favourite theory; Ride and tie to ride and go on foot alternately; Ride down to overthrow treat with severity; Ride easy when a ship does not pitch—opp. to Ride hard when she pitches violently; Ride in the marrow-bone coach(slang) to go on foot; Ride out to keep afloat throughout a storm; Ride over to domineer; Ride rough-shod to pursue a course regardless of the consequences to others; Ride shank's mare (slang) to walk; Ride the high horse to have grand airs; Ride the marches (see March); Ride the Spanish mare to be put astride a boom as a punishment; Ride the wild mare (Shak.) to play at see-saw; Ride to hounds to take part in a fox-hunt esp. to ride close behind the hounds; Riding the fair the ceremony of proclaiming a fair.
Typed by Gus
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure. Sickness often follows this dream. If you ride slowly, you will have unsatisfactory results in your undertakings. Swift riding sometimes means prosperity under hazardous conditions.
Typed by Clint
Examples
- The next morning after the capture of Petersburg, I telegraphed Mr. Lincoln asking him to ride out there and see me, while I would await his arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We looked forward to the day when I should go out for a ride, as we had once looked forward to the day of my apprenticeship. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- While breakfasting he considered whether he should ride to Middlemarch at once, or wait for Lydgate's arrival. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But I don't allow anybody to ride over that turf. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I am afraid you have had a tedious ride; John drives so slowly; you must be cold, come to the fire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had heard them, alone at the bedside, striking their boots with their riding-whips, and loitering up and down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If I were at home still, I should take to riding again, that I might go about with you and see all that! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mounting, Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They rested on some straw in a loft until the middle of the night, and then rode forward again when all the town was asleep. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Fred Bentinck rode by the side of my carriage for the first ten miles. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I turned and rode around the block the other way, so as to meet the head of the column. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Seeing a soldier in blue on this log, I rode up to him, commenced conversing with him, and asked whose corps he belonged to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He saw me; for the moon had opened a blue field in the sky, and rode in it watery bright: he took his hat off, and waved it round his head. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But really, here the man rides and carries the child, as a general thing, and the woman walks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ordinary politician has no real control, no direction, no insight into the power he rides. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who offers him drink, which he declines. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sometimes Catherine and I went for rides out in the country in a carriage. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She took long rides of half a day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He's a free, pleasant gentleman as ever lived--rides to the hounds, keeps his pointers and all that. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have ridden at forty miles an hour on Mr. Edison's electric railway--and we ran off the track. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A Frenchman brought it hither, who said, he had ridden night and day to put it into the hands of your highness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Muck the whole treachery-ridden country. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Agustín put some more snow in his mouth and looked across the clearing where the cavalry had ridden. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You might just as well have ridden back up the road, and saved all that horror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the day following our return all the warriors had ridden forth early in the morning and had not returned until just before darkness fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Editor: Maynard