ride

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
2. v. To travel over a surface: This car rides well.
3. v. 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.
4. v. Nautical To lie at anchor: battleships riding at the mouth of the estuary.
5. v. To seem to float: The moon was riding among the clouds.
6. v. To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.
7. v. To be contingent; depend: The final outcome rides on the results of the election.
8. v. To continue without interference: Let the matter ride.
9. v. To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body: pants that ride up.
10. v. To sit on and move in a given direction: rode a motorcycle to town; ride a horse to the village.
11. v. To travel over, along, or through: ride the highways.
12. v. To be supported or carried on: a swimmer riding the waves.
13. v. To take part in or do by riding: He rode his last race.
14. v. To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried.
15. v. Nautical To keep (a vessel) at anchor.
16. v. Informal To tease or ridicule.
17. v. Informal To harass with persistent carping and criticism.
18. v. To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot: Don't ride the clutch or the brakes.
19. n. The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.
20. n. A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.
21. n. A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.
22. n. A means of transportation: waiting for her ride to come.
23. ride out To survive or outlast: rode out the storm.
24. idiom. ride for a fall To court danger or disaster.
25. idiom. ride herd on To keep watch or control over.
26. idiom. ride high To experience success.
27. idiom. ride shotgun To guard a person or thing while in transit.
28. idiom. ride shotgun Slang To ride in the front passenger seat of a car or truck.
29. idiom. take for a ride Slang To deceive or swindle: an author who tried to take his publisher for a ride.
30. idiom. take for a ride Slang To transport to a place and kill.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To be carried on the back of a horse, ass, mule, camel, elephant, or other animal; specifically, to sit on and manage a horse in motion.
2. To be borne along in a vehicle, or in or on any kind of conveyance; be carried in or on a wagon, coach, car, balloon, ship, palanquin, bicycle, or the like; hence, in general, to travel or make progress by means of any supporting and moving agency.
3. To be borne in or on a fluid; float; specifically, to lie at anchor.
4. To move on or about something.
5. To be mounted and borne along; hence, to move triumphantly or proudly.
6. To be carted, as a convicted bawd.
7. To have free play; have the upper hand; domineer.
8. To lap or lie over: said especially of a rope when the part on which the strain is brought lies over and jams the other parts.
9. To serve as a means of travel; be in condition to support a rider or traveler: as, that horse rides well under the saddle.
10. In surgery, said of the ends of a fractured bone when they overlap each other.
11. To climb up or rise, as an ill-fitting coat tends to do at the shoulders and the back of the neck.
12. Synonyms and The effort has been made, in both England and America, to confine ride to progression on horseback, and to use drive for progression in a vehicle, but it has not been altogether successful, being checked by the counter-tendency to use drive only where the person in question holds the reins or where the kind of motion is emphasized.
13. To sit on and drive; be carried along on and by: used specifically of a horse.
14. To be carried or travel on, through, or over.
15. To do, make, or execute by riding: as, to ride a race; to ride an errand.
16. To hurry over; gallop through.
17. To control and manage, especially with harshness or arrogance; domineer or tyrannize over: especially in the past participle ridden, in composition, as in priest-ridden.
18. To carry; transport.
19. n. A journey on the back of a horse, ass, mule, camel, elephant, or other animal; more broadly, any excursion, whether on the back of an animal, in a vehicle, or by some other mode of conveyance: as, a ride in a wagon or a balloon; a ride on a bicycle or a cow-catcher.
20. n. A saddle-horse.
21. n. A road intended expressly for riding; a bridlepath; a place for exercise on horseback. Also called riding.
22. n. A little stream or brook.
23. n. A certain district patrolled by mounted excise officers.
24. n. In printing, a fault caused by overlapping: said of leads or rules that slip and overlap, of a kerned type that overlaps or binds a type in a line below, also of a color that impinges on another color in prints of two or more colors.
25. In lawn-bowls, to roll (the ball) with great force.
26. n. See compartment line.
27. n. The side of a log upon which it rests when being dragged.

Wiktionary

1. v. lacrosse To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
2. n. An instance of riding.
3. n. informal A vehicle.
4. n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
5. n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
6. n. UK A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
7. n. UK, dialect, archaic A saddle horse.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
2. v. To be borne in a carriage. See Synonym, below.
3. v. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
4. v. To be supported in motion; to rest.
5. v. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
6. v. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
7. v. To sit on, so as to be carried
8. v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
9. v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
10. v. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
11. n. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
12. n. Prov. Eng. A saddle horse.
13. n. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. climb up on the body
2. v. have certain properties when driven
3. v. sit on and control a vehicle
4. v. move like a floating object
5. v. harass with persistent criticism or carping
6. v. be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
7. v. keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
8. v. be sustained or supported or borne
9. v. continue undisturbed and without interference
10. v. be contingent on
11. v. ride over, along, or through
12. v. lie moored or anchored
13. v. copulate with
14. n. a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
15. n. a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
16. v. sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions