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ride

noun

1 ride

A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile).

synonym: drive.

Roget 266: travel; traveling etc. v.. wayfaring, campaigning.    journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, ... show more

Dutch: autorit, lift, rit, rondrit, sightseeing, toer
Polish: przejażdżka

2 ride

A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement.

verb

1 ride

Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions:
— Did you ever ride a camel?.

synonym: sit.

2 ride

Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle.

Dutch: rijden, verrijden

3 ride

Continue undisturbed and without interference.

4 ride

Move like a floating object.

5 ride

Harass with persistent criticism or carping:
— Don't ride me so hard over my failure.

synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit.

Dutch: martelen, hekelen, mienen, narren, sarren, tergen, treiteren, zuigen

6 ride

Be sustained or supported or borne.

7 ride

Have certain properties when driven:
— This car rides smoothly.

synonym: drive.

Roget 266: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk etc. n.; have a run; take the air.    flit, take wing; migrate, ... show more

8 ride

Be contingent on:
— The outcomes rides on the results of the election.

synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on.

9 ride

Lie moored or anchored.

10 ride

Sit on and control a vehicle.

11 ride

Climb up on the body.

12 ride

Ride over, along, or through.

13 ride

Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot.

14 ride

Copulate with.

synonym: mount.

Roget 206: be high etc. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over; orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Sunday drive, abut on, aggravate, airing, annoy, auto, badger, bait, bamboozle, banter, be at, be based on, bear on, bedevil, beset, bestraddle, bestride, bicycle, bike, bother ... show more.

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