ride

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil 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.”

3. fiil To transport (someone) in a vehicle.

   “The cab rode him downtown.”

4. fiil 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: […]”

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

   “How many races have you ridden this year?”

8. fiil 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?”

9. fiil To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

   “A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.”

10. fiil To mount (someone) to have sex with them.

    “Cowboy. That's what he calls me when we are like this. It's as if I'm sitting in a saddle and he is my horse. And when he starts to buck, I ride.”

11. fiil To have sex with (someone).
12. fiil To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

    ““One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.”

13. fiil Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

    “In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.”

14. fiil To rely, depend (on).

    “With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.”

15. fiil Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

    “She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.”

16. fiil To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
17. fiil To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

    “The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.”

18. fiil To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
19. fiil To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.

    “vocal riding”

20. fiil In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

    “The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.”

21. isim An instance of riding.

    “Can I have a ride on your bike?”

22. isim A vehicle.

    “That's a nice ride; what did it cost?”

23. isim An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

    “the kids went on all the rides”

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

    “Can you give me a ride home?”

25. isim 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.”

26. isim A saddle horse.

    “Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.”

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

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

28. isim A steady rhythmical style.
29. isim Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
30. isim A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.

    “That story was a ride from start to finish.”