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trail
English
Etymology
From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragul?re (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?l, IPA(key): /t?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Verb
trail (third-person singular simple present trails, present participle trailing, simple past and past participle trailed)
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- The bride's long dress trailed behind her as she walked down the aisle.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- Our parents marched to church and we trailed behind.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- To create a trail in.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Derived terms
- trailer
- trail off
Translations
Noun
trail (plural trails)
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
Synonyms
- (track of an animal): spoor, sign
- (route for travel over land): dirt track, footpath, path, track
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- path
- track
Anagrams
- TRALI, irtal, litra, trial
French
Noun
trail f (plural trails)
- Dual-sport motorcycle
- Trail running
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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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