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ride
English
Etymology
From Middle English riden, from Old English r?dan, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyd?-.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)
- (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
- 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923
- It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
- 2010, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2010
- The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
- 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923
- (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- 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.
- 1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- (transitive, 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.]
- 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love
- where ships at anchor ride.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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 […]
- 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love
- (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.
- 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
- 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.
- 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
- (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]
- 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
- (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
- 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
- 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008
- 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.
- 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008
- (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
- 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
- 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.
- 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
- 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001
- She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
- 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001
- (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- The nobility […] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- (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.
- 2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
- The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.
- 2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22)
- “You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]
- 2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
- (music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
Synonyms
- (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ride (plural rides)
- 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.
- (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
- Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
- 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
- (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
- The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.
- 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- (informal) An act of sexual intercourse
- Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ri?ð?/, [??iðð?]
- Rhymes: -i?d?
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Faroese ryta, rita or Icelandic rita, from Old Norse rytr, derived from the verb rjóta (“to cry”), from the verb Proto-Germanic *reutan?.
Noun
ride c (singular definite riden, plural indefinite rider)
- black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse ríða, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, cognate with English ride, German reiten.
Verb
ride (past tense red, past participle redet, c reden, definite or plural redne)
- to ride (to sit on the back of an animal)
- (slang) to have intercourse with (sex position with one person sitting on top of another like on a horse)
Inflection
Derived terms
- ridetur
- ridning
French
Etymology
From rider.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?id/
- Rhymes: -id
Noun
ride f (plural rides)
- wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
- ripple
- ridge
Related terms
- ridé
- rider
Verb
ride
- first-person singular present indicative of rider
- third-person singular present indicative of rider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of rider
- third-person singular present subjunctive of rider
- second-person singular imperative of rider
Further reading
- “ride” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dire
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Verb
ride
- third-person singular indicative present of ridere
Anagrams
- dire
Latin
Verb
r?d?
- second-person singular present active imperative of r?de?
Middle English
Verb
ride
- Alternative form of riden
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- ri
Etymology
From Old Norse ríða
Verb
ride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)
- to ride (e.g. a horse)
Derived terms
- ridedyr
- ridepisk
- ridning
References
- “ride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
ride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)
- Alternative form of rida
Derived terms
- ridedyr
- ridepisk
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian r?da, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reyd?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rid?/, /?ri?d?/
Verb
ride
- (intransitive) to ride
- (transitive, intransitive) to drive
Inflection
Further reading
- “ride (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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bully
English
Etymology
From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( +? -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *b?lô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English B?la, B?lla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *b?- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian b?linš (“brother”). More at boy.
The term acquired negative senses during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’. Possibly influenced by bull (“male cattle”) or via the ‘prostitute's minder’ sense. The positive senses are dated, but survive in phrases such as bully pulpit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?li/
- Rhymes: -?li
Noun
bully (countable and uncountable, plural bullies)
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those who are weaker or have less power or privilege. [from late 17th c.]
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- A hired thug.
- 1849, John McLean, Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, pp. 42-3:
- Mr. Fisher returned from town... he had learnt that our opponents intended to shift the scene of operations to the Chats... We understood that they had hired two bullies for the purpose of deciding the matter par voie de fait. Mr Fisher hired two of the same description, who were supposed to be more than a match for the opposition party.
- Synonyms: henchman, thug
- 1849, John McLean, Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, pp. 42-3:
- A sex worker’s minder.
- Synonyms: pimp; see also Thesaurus:pimp
- 2009, Dan Cruikshank, Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, p. 473:
- The Proclamation Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice were more concerned with obscene literature […] than with hands-on street battles with prostitutes and their bullies […].
- (uncountable) Bully beef.
- (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- Various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper goby.
- (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
- (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
- (obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sweetheart
- (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
- (mining) A miner's hammer.
Translations
Verb
bully (third-person singular simple present bullies, present participle bullying, simple past and past participle bullied)
- (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intimidate
- (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
- Synonyms: push around, ride roughshod over
Translations
Adjective
bully (comparative bullier, superlative bulliest)
- (US, slang) Very good.
- Synonyms: excellent; see also Thesaurus:excellent
- 1916, The Independent (volumes 35-36, page 6)
- She is a bully woman, not only a good mother, but a wonderful in-law
- (slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
- Synonym: dashing
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Act II, scene iii:
Derived terms
- bully boy
- bully pulpit
Translations
Interjection
bully
- (often followed by for) Well done!
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:well done
Translations
Further reading
- bully on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English bully, itself a derivation of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bu.li/
- Hyphenation: bul?ly
Noun
bully m (plural bully's)
- (field hockey) bully (way of resuming the game with a standoff between two opposing players who repeatedly hit each other's sticks, then try to gain possession of the ball)
Spanish
Noun
bully m (plural bullys or bullies or bully)
- bully
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- what bully sticks are made of
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