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ride

US/ɹaɪd/ very common informal slang uk us
verb (14) noun (2)

verb

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”
Synonyms
2.

be carried or travel on or in a vehicle

  • “I ride to work in a bus”
  • “He rides the subway downtown every day”
Antonyms
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”
  • “;”
Synonyms
6.

be sustained or supported or borne

  • “His glasses rode high on his nose”
  • “The child rode on his mother”
  • “;”
  • “;”
  • “s political name”
7.

have certain properties when driven

  • “This car rides smoothly”
  • “My new truck drives well”
Synonyms
8.

be contingent on

  • “The outcomes rides on the results of the election”
  • “Your grade will depends on your homework”
Synonyms
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

  • “Travel the highways of America”
  • “Ride the freeways of California”
13.

keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot

  • “Don”
14.

copulate with

  • “The bull was riding the cow”
Synonyms

noun

1.

a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else

  • “he took the family for a drive in his new car”
Synonyms
2.

Origin

From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną (“to ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ- (“to ride”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride, ridj, rir (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Dutch rijden, ryden (“to ride; to drive”), German reiten, reuten (“to ride”), German Low German rieden (“to ride; to drive”), Limburgish rieje (“to ride; to drive”), Luxembourgish reiden (“to ride”), Vilamovian raeita, rajta (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Faroese and Icelandic ríða (“to ride”), Norwegian Bokmål ri, ride (“to ride”), Norwegian Nynorsk ri, rida, ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”). From Indo-European: Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin irrītō (“to excite, incite, stimulate; to exasperate”), Ancient Greek ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to move, stir”), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Russian ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to fly, hover, soar”), Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to get up; to rise up”), Northern Kurdish rîtin...

Phrases

  • air ride
  • amusement ride
  • bike ride
  • catch a ride
  • check ride
  • coffin ride
  • dark ride
  • death ride
  • ride a hobby With this term at the beginning
  • ride a horse foaled by an acorn With this term at the beginning
  • ride a horse foaled of an acorn With this term at the beginning
  • ride along With this term at the beginning

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