An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse). / (now only figuratively) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing. / A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.

(transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb. / (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

(computing) A troubleshooting mode of many operating systems in which most advanced functions are not activated.

Physical motion between points in space. / (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.

A woman who gives birth to a child not her own, with the intent to give that child up to at least one of the biological parents once it is born.

A political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 1999. Abbreviation: MDC.

A brief compulsion to finish listening to something on the radio before leaving one's car.

Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).

(intransitive) To become covered with moss. / (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.

(botany) Several members of the Convolvulaceae family; climbing plants with trumpet shaped flowers. / (UK, informal) An involuntary erection present upon waking.