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Mrs. Brown bought them some chocolates, for the ride was a long one, and they had eaten an early breakfast.

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  1. intransitive verb To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
  2. intransitive verb To travel over a surface: This car rides well.
  3. intransitive verb To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water: The President rode into office on a tide of discontent.
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  • Also along for the ride is the town doctor, Dakota Block (Marley Shelton.) —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Tagging along for the ride will be the appearance of Capcom's —  The Xbox Domain
  • Along for the ride is their female foil, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Heather Prete) -- platinum blond, oozing sexuality -- the love of Scott's life, he says, though the two spend the bulk of the play building each other up just to rip it right back down again. —  Advocate.com Daily News
  • Also along for the ride is a set of interchangeable levitating aperture disks, a disc case and a magnetic tool to replace the discs in front of the lens. —  Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
  • Along for the ride are the teacher's daughter (Sierra Boggess) and her strapping boyfriend (Ryan Silverman), the local school master. —  IdahoStatesman.com News Updates
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trip ·  walk ·  drive ·  run ·  flight ·  march ·  travel ·  go ·  adventure ·  visit ·  hunt ·  dance

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ride:   rides ·  rode ·  riding ·  ridden
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English riden (preterit rod, rood, earlier rad, plural riden, reden, past participle riden), from Anglo-Saxon rīdan (preterit rād, plural ridon, past participle riden), ride on horseback, move forward (as a ship or a cloud), rock (as a ship at anchor), swing (as one hung on a gallows), = OFries. rīda = Dutch rijden, ride on horseback or in a vehicle, slide, as on skates, = Middle Low German Low German rīden = Old High German rītan, move forward, proceed, ride on horseback or in a vehicle, Middle High German rīten, German reiten, ride, = Icelandic rītha = Swedish rida = Danish ride, ride; orig. prob, simply ‘go,’ ‘travel’ (as in the derived noun road, in the general sense ‘a way’); cf. Old Irish rīad, ride, move, rīadami, I ride, Gaulish rēda (later L. rheda, reda, ræda), a wagon. Hence ult. road, raid, bed-ridden.
  2. from Middle English ride = German ritt = Icelandic reith = Swedish Danish ridt; from the verb: see ride, v. Cf. road, raid.
 

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