How to pronounce “ride”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
• (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
• (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]
• (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
• (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]
• (transitive) To traverse by riding.
• (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
• (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• (ambitransitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them. [from 13th c.]
• (ambitransitive, Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).
• (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
• (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
• (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
• (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
• (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
• (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
• [Noun]
• An instance of riding.
• (informal) A vehicle.
• An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
• (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
• Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
• (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
• (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
• A district inspected by an excise officer.
• (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.

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