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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

... mouth none to go myse'f, not seein' reelaxation in pokin' about permiscus among a passel of Mexicans, an' me loathin' of 'em from birth; but I goes, aimin' to ride herd on Dave. Which his disp'sition is some free an' various; an' bein' among Mexicans, that a-way, he's liable to mix himse'f into trouble. Not that Dave is bad, none whatever; but bein' seven or eight drinks winner, ...

— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis

... anticipated. Egremont had been brought up in the enjoyment of every comfort and every luxury that refinement could devise and wealth furnish. He was a favourite child. His parents emulated each other in pampering and indulging him. Every freak was pardoned, every whim was gratified. He might ride what horses he liked, and if he broke their knees, what in another would have been deemed a flagrant sin, was in him held only a proof of reckless spirit. If he were not a thoroughly selfish and altogether wilful person, but very much the reverse, it was not the fault of his parents, but rather ...

— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli

... victorious at the Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean games, that they are not only greeted with applause as they stand with palm and crown at the meeting itself, but even on returning to their several states in the triumph of victory, they ride into their cities and to their fathers' houses in four-horse chariots, and enjoy fixed revenues for life at the public expense. When I think of this, I am amazed that the same honours and even greater are not bestowed upon those authors whose boundless services are performed for ...

— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

... after minute elapsed and we continued in motion we changed our minds about the descent, and concluded that the inventor was going to give us a much longer ride than we had anticipated. We were startled and puzzled but not really alarmed, for the car traveled so smoothly that it gave one a sense of confidence. On the other hand, we felt a little indignation that Edmund should treat us like a lot of boys, without wills of ...

— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss

... obedience to their will and hurried on, mentally resolved to hire horses and take his Emir for a ride until the evening. It would be easy to say the Frank had willed it so, in which case none could blame him. With this in mind he entered the hotel. But again his Emir proved refractory. The air that morning ...

— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall

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