From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ride
n 1: a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took
the family for a drive in his new car" [syn: drive,
ride]
2: a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
v 1: 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" [syn: ride, sit]
2: be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a
bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" [ant: walk]
3: continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride"
4: move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night
sky"
5: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
6: 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"
7: have certain properties when driven; "This car rides
smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: drive, ride]
8: be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the
election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn:
depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on,
hinge on, hinge upon]
9: lie moored or anchored; "Ship rides at anchor"
10: sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work
every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through
town"
11: climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt
keeps riding up my legs"
12: ride over, along, or through; "Ride the freeways of
California"
13: keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with
the foot; "Don't ride the clutch!"
14: copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" [syn: ride,
mount]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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[imac]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G.
reiten, OHG. r[imac]tan, Icel. r[imac][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.
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To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. --Chaucer.
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Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop
after him. --Swift.
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2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a
car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
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The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not
by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the
streets with trains of servants. --Macaulay.
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3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
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Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
--Dryden.
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4. To be supported in motion; to rest.
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Strong as the exletree
On which heaven rides. --Shak.
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On whose foolish honesty
My practices ride easy! --Shak.
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5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
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He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
--Dryden.
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6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle;
as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
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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.
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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.
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"Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord
Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that
morning. --W. Black.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, v. t.
1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to
ride a bicycle.
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[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the
air
In whirlwind. --Milton.
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2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
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The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by
bakers, cobblers, and brewers. --Swift.
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3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
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Tue only men that safe can ride
Mine errands on the Scottish side. --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or
fractured fragments.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, n.
1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a
vehicle.
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2. A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be
used as a place for riding; a riding.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bodkin \Bod"kin\ (b[o^]d"k[i^]n), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of
uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir.
bideog, Gael. biodag.]
1. A dagger. [Obs.]
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When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin. --Shak.
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2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc.,
with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a
stiletto; an eyeleteer.
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3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out
letters from a column or page in making corrections.
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4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for
drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a
tape needle.
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Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. --Pope.
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5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
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To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged
between two persons. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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