English Dictionary

ride

/ɹaɪd/

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.

I love to ride my bike in the park.

意味（1）

(intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.

意味（2）

(intransitive, transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.

The cab rode him downtown.

意味（4）

(intransitive) 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: […]

意味（5）

(transitive, intransitive) 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.

意味（6）

(transitive) 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.

意味（7）

(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

How many races have you ridden this year?

意味（8）

(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

意味（9）

(intransitive, transitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.

She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.

意味（10）

(transitive, colloquial) 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.

意味（11）

(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.

意味（12）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（13）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（14）

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

意味（15）

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.

意味（16）

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

意味（17）

(radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.

vocal riding

意味（18）

(music) 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.