Race vs. Ride

Race and Ride Definitions
Race
A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group. Most biologists and anthropologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, in part because there is more genetic variation within groups than between them.
Ride
To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
Race
A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution
The Celtic race.
Ride
(Sports) To participate in a board sport such as snowboarding.
Race
A genealogical line; a lineage.
Ride
To travel over a surface
This car rides well.
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Race
Humans considered as a group.
Ride
To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water
The President rode into office on a tide of discontent.
Race
A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits
An island race of birds.
Ride
(Nautical) To lie at anchor
Battleships riding at the mouth of the estuary.
Race
A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.
Ride
To seem to float
The moon was riding among the clouds.
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Race
A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.
Ride
To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.
Race
A competition of speed, as in running or riding.
Ride
To be contingent; depend
The final outcome rides on the results of the election.
Race
Races A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course
A fan of the dog races.
Ride
To continue without interference
Let the matter ride.
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Race
An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner
The presidential race.
Ride
To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body
Pants that ride up.
Race
Steady or rapid onward movement
The race of time.
Ride
To sit on and control the movement of
Rode a motorcycle to town.
Ride a horse to the village.
Race
A strong or swift current of water.
Ride
(Sports) To glide or move while standing on or having one's feet attached to (a board, such as a snowboard).
Race
The channel of such a current.
Ride
To travel over, along, or through
Ride the highways.
Race
An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.
Ride
To be supported or carried on
A swimmer riding the waves.
Race
A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.
Ride
To take part in or do by riding
He rode his last race.
Race
See slipstream.
Ride
To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried
The police rode him down to the station.
Race
Of or relating to race; racial
Race relations.
Race quotas.
Ride
(Sports) To control (an opponent) in wrestling, usually by holding the opponent down.
Race
Of or relating to forms of popular entertainment made by and largely marketed to African Americans in the early 1900s
Race literature.
Race records.
Ride
(Nautical) To keep (a vessel) at anchor.
Race
(Sports) To compete in a contest of speed.
Ride
To tease or ridicule.
Race
To move rapidly or at top speed
We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
Ride
To harass with persistent carping and criticism.
Race
To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel
Adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.
Ride
To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
Don't ride the clutch or the brakes.
Race
To compete against in a race.
Ride
The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.
Race
To cause to compete in a race
She races horses for a living.
Ride
A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.
Race
To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush
Raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
Ride
A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.
Race
To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.
Ride
A means of transportation
Waiting for her ride to come.
Race
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
Ride
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.
Race
Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
Ride
To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
Race
(computing) A race condition.
Ride
To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
The cab rode him downtown.
Race
A progressive movement toward a goal.
The race to cure cancer
Ride
(intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
Race
A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
Ride
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.
Race
A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
Ride
(transitive) To traverse by riding.
Race
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
Ride
(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
How many races have you ridden this year?
Race
The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
Ride
(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
Race
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics:
Ride
To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
Race
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage compare ethnic group. See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
Ride
To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
Race
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race.
Ride
(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
Race
A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage compare species, subspecies.
A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.
Ride
(intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
Race
A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
Recent developments in artificial intelligence have brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
Ride
(intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
Race
(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
Ride
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
Race
(zoology) Subspecies.
Ride
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
Race
(animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
Ride
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
Race
An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.
Ride
To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
Vocal riding
Race
(obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
Ride
(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
Race
(obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
Ride
An instance of riding.
Can I have a ride on your bike?
We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
Go for a quick ride
Race
Ancestry.
Ride
(informal) A vehicle.
That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
Pimp my ride
Race
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
Ride
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
The kids went on all the rides
Race
(intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
The drivers were racing around the track.
Ride
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
Can you give me a ride home?
Race
(transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
Ride
(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
Race
(intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.
Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
Ride
A saddle horse.
Race
To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
Ride
(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
Race
To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
Ride
(music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
Race
To raze.
Ride
A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
That story was a ride from start to finish.
Race
To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
Ride
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse
I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.
Race
To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
Ride
To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way.
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him.
Race
To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
Ride
To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants.
Race
To run a race with.
Ride
To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
Race
A root.
Ride
To be supported in motion; to rest.
Strong as the exletreeOn which heaven rides.
On whose foolish honestyMy practices ride easy!
Race
The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
The whole race of mankind.
Whence the long race of Alban fathers come.
Ride
To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
Race
Company; herd; breed.
For do but note a wild and wanton herd,Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,Fetching mad bounds.
Ride
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
"Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning.
Race
A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
Ride
To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the airIn whirlwind.
Race
Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
Ride
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
Race
Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
And now I give my sensual race the rein.
Some . . . great race of fancy or judgment.
Ride
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
Tue only men that safe can rideMine errands on the Scottish side.
Race
A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
Ride
To overlap (each other); - said of bones or fractured fragments.
Race
Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
Ride
The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
Race
Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
The race is not to the swift.
I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race.
Ride
A saddle horse.
Race
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
My race of glory run, and race of shame.
Ride
A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Race
A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
Ride
A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else;
He took the family for a drive in his new car
Race
The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
Ride
A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
Race
A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
Ride
Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions;
She never sat a horse!
Did you ever ride a camel?
The girl liked to drive the young mare
Race
Any competition;
The race for the presidency
Ride
Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle;
I ride to work in a bus
He rides the subway downtown every day
Race
People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock;
Some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings
Ride
Continue undisturbed and without interference;
Let it ride
Race
A contest of speed;
The race is to the swift
Ride
Move like a floating object;
The moon rode high in the night sky
Race
The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
Ride
Harass with persistent criticism or carping;
The children teased the new teacher
Don't ride me so hard over my failure
His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
Race
(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
Ride
Be sustained or supported or borne;
His glasses rode high on his nose
The child rode on his mother's hips
She rode a wave of popularity
The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name
Race
A canal for a current of water
Ride
Have certain properties when driven;
This car rides smoothly
My new truck drives well
Race
Step on it;
He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
The cars raced down the street
Ride
Be contingent on;
The outcomes rides on the results of the electin
Your grade will depends on your homework
Race
Compete in a race;
He is running the Marathon this year
Let's race and see who gets there first
Ride
Lie moored or anchored;
Ship rides at anchor
Race
To work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others;
We are racing to find a cure for AIDS
Ride
Sit on and control a vehicle;
He rides his bicycle to work every day
She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town
Race
Cause to move fast or to rush or race;
The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze
Ride
Climb up on the body;
Shorts that ride up
This skirt keeps riding up my legs
Ride
Ride over, along, or through;
Travel the highways of America
Ride the freeways of California
Ride
Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot;
Don't ride the clutch!
Ride
Copulate with;
The bull was riding the cow