Ride: Definition and part of speech

Ride

  1. n. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
  2. v. i. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
  3. v. i. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
  4. v. i. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
  5. v. i. To be supported in motion; to rest.
  6. v. i. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
  7. v. i. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
  8. v. t. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
  9. v. t. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
  10. v. t. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
  11. 1n. 1 A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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