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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

... into Oxfordshire away he did ride, To bring Lord Lovelace safe home; He plundered the Papists along as he goes, He could not endure to see ...

— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls

... girl herself he might have entertained during his ride were immediately dissipated as soon as Adelle entered the drawing-room from the class whence she had been summoned. She was a little larger, perhaps, than he remembered her, but essentially the same awkward, homely child, and she was now wearing an ugly harness upon her teeth that further disfigured ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... like the rest, with his arm fast linked in that of his son Frederick. He had meant to ride, for the distance was long for men past sixty; but finding the latter resolved to walk, he had consented to do the same rather than ...

— Agatha Webb • Anna Katharine Green

... this part of the country. Every morning some party was formed by Mrs. Falconer, and so happily arranged that her Georgiana and the count were necessarily thrown together. The count rode extremely well; Miss Falconers had been taught to ride in a celebrated riding-house, and were delighted to display their equestrian graces. When they were not disposed to ride, the count had a phaeton; and Mrs. Falconer a barouche; and either in the phaeton, or the barouche seat, Miss Georgiana Falconer was seated ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth

... direction of Marjorie's house. Perhaps he chose to ride along this way in order that he might be obliged to pass her door, and then again, perhaps, that was but of secondary import. This was no time for analysis, and so he refused to study his motives. He did know that he had not seen ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

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