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ride

[rahyd]

verb, rode or (Archaic

) rid; rid⋅den or (Archaic

) rid; rid⋅ing; noun

Use ride in a Sentence

–verb (used without object)

1.	to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.

2.	to be borne along on or in a vehicle or other kind of conveyance.

3.	to move or float on the water: the surfboarders riding on the crests of the waves.

4.	to move along in any way; be carried or supported: He is riding along on his friend's success. Distress is riding among the people.

5.	to have a specified character for riding purposes: The car rides smoothly.

6.	to be conditioned; depend (usually fol. by on): All his hopes are riding on getting that promotion.

7.	Informal. to continue without interruption or interference: He decided to let the bet ride.

8.	to be carried on something, as a litter, a person's shoulders, or the like.

9.	to work or move up from the proper place or position (usually fol. by up): Her skirt rode up above her knees.

10.	to extend or project over something, as the edge of one thing over the edge of another thing.

11.	to turn or rest on something: the great globe of the world riding on its axis.

12.	to appear to float in space, as a heavenly body: A blood-red moon rode in the cloudless sky.

13.	to lie at anchor, as a ship.

–verb (used with object)

14.	to sit on and manage (a horse, bicycle, etc.) so as to be carried along.

15.	to sit or move along on (something); be carried or borne along on: The ship rode the waves. We ride a bus.

16.	to ride over, along, or through (a road, boundary, region, etc.); traverse.

17.	to ridicule or harass persistently: The boys keep riding him about his poor grades.

18.	to control, dominate, or tyrannize over: a man ridden by fear; a country that is ridden by a power-mad dictator.

19.	to cause to ride.

20.	to carry (a person) on something as if on a horse: He rode the child about on his back.

21.	to execute by riding: to ride a race.

22.	to rest on, esp. by overlapping.

23.	to keep (a vessel) at anchor or moored.

24.	Jazz. to play improvisations on (a melody).

–noun

25.	a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.

26.	a means of or arrangement for transportation by motor vehicle: We'll handle rides to be sure everyone gets home quickly.

27.	the vehicle used for transportation: I've got to hang up now—my ride's here.

28.	a vehicle or device, as a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, or merry-go-round, on which people ride for amusement.

29.	a way, road, etc., made esp. for riding.

—Verb phrase

30.

ride out,

a.	to sustain (a gale, storm, etc.) without damage, as while riding at anchor.

b.	to sustain or endure successfully.

—Idioms

31.

ride down,

a.	to trample or overturn by riding upon or against.

b.	to ride up to; overtake; capture: The posse rode down the escaping bank robber.

c.	Nautical. to bear down upon (a rope of a tackle) with all one's weight.

32.	ride for a fall, to conduct oneself so as to invite misfortune or injury.

33.	ride herd on. herd ¹ (def. 6).

34.	ride shotgun. shotgun (def. 9).

35.	ride the beam, Aeronautics. to fly along the course indicated by a radio beam.

36.

take for a ride, Slang.

a.	to murder, esp. by abducting the victim for that purpose.

b.	to deceive; trick: It was obvious to everyone but me that I was being taken for a ride.

Origin:
bef. 900; 1915–20 for def. 17; ME riden (v.), OE rīdan; c. OFris rīda, G reiten, ON rītha; akin to OIr ríad journey (cf. palfrey, rheda ). See road

Synonyms:
2. See drive.

Ride

[rahyd]

–noun

Sally, born 1951, U.S. astronaut and astrophysicist: first U.S. woman to reach outer space 1983.

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ride (rīd)

v. rode (rōd), rid·den (rĭd'n), rid·ing, rides

v. intr.

To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
To travel over a surface: This car rides well.
To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water: The President rode into office on a tide of discontent.
Nautical To lie at anchor: battleships riding at the mouth of the estuary.
To seem to float: The moon was riding among the clouds.
To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.
To be contingent; depend: The final outcome rides on the results of the election.
To continue without interference: Let the matter ride.
To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body: pants that ride up.

v. tr.

To sit on and move in a given direction: rode a motorcycle to town; ride a horse to the village.
To travel over, along, or through: ride the highways.
To be supported or carried on: a swimmer riding the waves.
To take part in or do by riding: He rode his last race.
To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried.
Nautical To keep (a vessel) at anchor.
Informal
1. To tease or ridicule.
2. To harass with persistent carping and criticism.
To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot: Don't ride the clutch or the brakes.

The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.
A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.
A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.
A means of transportation: waiting for her ride to come.

Phrasal Verb(s):
ride outTo survive or outlast: rode out the storm.

Idiom(s):
ride for a fallTo court danger or disaster.

Idiom(s):
ride herd onTo keep watch or control over.

Idiom(s):
ride highTo experience success.

Idiom(s):
ride shotgun

To guard a person or thing while in transit.
Slang To ride in the front passenger seat of a car or truck.

Idiom(s):
take for a ride Slang

To deceive or swindle: an author who tried to take his publisher for a ride.
To transport to a place and kill.

[Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.]
rid'a·ble, ride'a·ble adj.

Ride (rīd)

American astronaut who in 1983 became the first U.S. woman to enter outer space.

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Ride

Ride\, v. i. [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.

Ride

Ride\, v. t. 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.

Ride

Ride\, n. 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.

Language Translation for : ride

Spanish: montar, ir en,

German: fahren, reiten,

Japanese: 乗る

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ride

O.E. ridan "ride" (as on horseback), "move forward, rock" (class I strong verb; past tense rad, pp. riden), from P.Gmc. *ridanan (cf. O.N. riða, O.Fris. rida, M.Du. riden, Ger. reiten), from PIE *reidh- "to ride" (cf. O.Ir. riadaim "I travel," O.Gaul. reda "chariot"). Meaning "heckle" is from 1912; that of "have sex with (a woman)" is from 1250; that of "dominate cruelly" is from 1583. The noun is first recorded 1759; slang meaning "a motor vehicle" is recorded from 1930; sense of "amusement park device" is from 1934. To ride out "endure (a storm, etc.) without great damage" is from 1529. To ride shotgun is 1963, from Old West stagecoach custom in the movies. To ride shank's mare "walk" is from 1846. To take (someone) for a ride "tease, mislead, cheat," is first attested 1925, Amer.Eng., possibly from underworld sense of "take on a car trip with intent to kill" (1927). Phrase go along for the ride "join in passively" is from 1960. A ride cymbal (1956) is used by jazz drummers for keeping up continuous rhythm, as opposed to a crash cymbal (ride as "rhythm" in jazz slang is recorded from 1936).

ride

In addition to the idioms beginning with ride, also see along for the ride; go along (for the ride); gravy train, ride the; hitch a ride; let ride; take someone for a ride.

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