rideverb/ɹaɪd/

• 1

  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.
  • Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
• 2

  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.
  • In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
• 3

  informalTo transport (someone) in a vehicle.

  • The cab rode him downtown.
  • 'Hurt him considerably. Ride him down to Bellevue Hospital and dump him nearby. Got that?' 'Yassuh.' 'Don't be seen.' 'Nossuh.'
• 4

  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: […]
  • By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]
• 5

  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.
• 6

  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.
• 7

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

  • How many races have you ridden this year?
  • The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
• 8

  To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).

  • Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam?
  • By labeling milk free of the artificial hormone, the dairy industry can ride the popularity of natural foods, without the greater expense and special feeds required to produce milk that can be fully certified as “organic.”

ridenoun/ɹaɪd/

• 1

  An instance of riding.

  • Can I have a ride on your bike?
  • We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
• 2

  informalA vehicle.

  • That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
  • pimp my ride
• 3

  An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

  • the kids went on all the rides
• 4

  A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

  • Can you give me a ride home?
• 5

  A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

  • We walked, perhaps, half a mile […], and came out suddenly, where five rides met, at a small classic temple between lichened stucco statues which faced a circle of turf, several acres in extent.
  • "Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..."
• 6

  archaicdialectalA saddle horse.

  • Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.
• 7

  A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

  • Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
• 8

  A steady rhythmical style.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• ride cymbal