Sekirov Dictionary

ride

/ɹaɪd/

verb 20
noun 13
forms 10
phrases 20

verb20

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to move along while sitting on a horse or a bike and guiding it
- I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
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To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. — 1851
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To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
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To traverse by riding.
- Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances. — 1999
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To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- How many races have you ridden this year?
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To rely, depend (on).
- With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February. — 2006
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Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
- She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back. — 2001
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(figurative) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
- Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam? — 1964
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To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like. — 1731
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(informal) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off. — 2002
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(US, informal) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- The cab rode him downtown.
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(slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them.
- Cowboy. That's what he calls me when we are like this. It's as if I'm sitting in a saddle and he is my horse. And when he starts to buck, I ride. — 1986
(Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
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To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
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Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loss of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholesome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […] — 1701
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To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range. — 2006
To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
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In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz. — 2000
To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

noun13

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An instance of riding.
- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
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A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- Can you give me a ride home?
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An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- the kids went on all the rides
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(informal) A vehicle.
- That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
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(figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- That story was a ride from start to finish.
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(slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.
Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
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(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- We walked, perhaps, half a mile […], and came out suddenly, where five rides met, at a small classic temple between lichened stucco statues which faced a circle of turf, several acres in extent. — 1913
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(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M. — 2007
A steady rhythmical style.
A district inspected by an excise officer.
(historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
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(dialect, no longer used) A saddle horse.
- Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride. — 1904

forms

rided · rade · rid · rode · rodest · ridden · riding · rides · rideth · ridest

Phrases with ride

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