ride
IPA: rˈaɪd
noun
- An instance of riding.
- (informal) A vehicle.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
- (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
- (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A district inspected by an excise officer.
- (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- (transitive) To traverse by riding.
- (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
- (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang, vulgar) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
- (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
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Examples of "ride" in Sentences
- I ride a horse in my backyard.
- The rider is tall and can ride a horse well.
- In the darkness, Hamza secretly mounts the horse and rides away.
- The wound festered and Drogo lost the ability to ride his horse.
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