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      ride
      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.
      (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
      (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
      (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
      (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
      A district inspected by an excise officer.
      Ellipsis of ride cymbal. [(music) A type of cymbal, the function of which is to maintain a steady rhythmic pattern.]
      (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
      (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
      verb
      (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
      (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
      (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
      (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
      (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
      (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.
      (ambitransitive, Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).
      (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
      (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
      (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
      (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
      (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.
      Synonyms for ride
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