Ride vs Fly - What's the difference?
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(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :
* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
* 1923 , "Mrs. Rinehart", Time , 28 Apr 1923:
* 2010 , The Guardian ,
(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
* 1960 , "Biznelcmd", Time , 20 Jun 1960:
Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
* Dryden
* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :
(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:
(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
* 2008 , Ann Kessel, The Guardian ,
To rely, depend (on).
* 2006 , "Grappling with deficits", The Economist , 9 Mar 2006:
Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
* 2001 , Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer ,
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
* Jonathan Swift
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
* Sir Walter Scott
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
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.
(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
(zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings, also called true flies.
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, title= (non-technical) Especially , any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
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, title= Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
(fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
(weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
(obsolete) A witch's familiar.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) A parasite.
To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
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, title= (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
* (John Dryden)
* (William Shakespeare)
* (William Shakespeare)
* (John Milton)
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(ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
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, title= To be accepted, come about or work out.
To travel very fast.
* (John Milton)
* Bryant
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
, title= To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
To hunt with a hawk.
(obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
An act of flying.
(baseball) A fly ball.
A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Folio Society 2008, p. 124:
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, title= *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 54:
*:And, driving back in the fly , Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least.
A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
The free edge of a flag.
The horizontal length of a flag.
Butterfly, a form of swimming.
(weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
(nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See fly wheel.
In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
(weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
(printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
(printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
(baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
(slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense).
(slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
(slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
As verbs the difference between ride and fly
is that ride is while fly is to travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface or fly can be (baseball) to hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out compare ground (verb) and line (verb).As a noun fly is
(zoology) any insect of the order diptera; characterized by having two wings, also called true flies or fly can be (obsolete) the action of flying; flight.As an adjective fly is
(slang|dated) quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense).ride
English
Verb
- Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
- I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- The cab rode him downtown.
- Men once walked where ships at anchor ride .
- 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
- The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
- A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
- Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
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.
- 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.
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.
- The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
- The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
Derived terms
* ride bareback * ride bitch * ride herd on * ride one's luck * ride roughshod over * ride shotgun * ride tall in the saddle * ride the rails * ride the pine * ride with the punchesNoun
(en noun)- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- That is a nice ride you are driving.
- Can you give me a ride ?
- (Wright)
Derived terms
* bike-and-ride * free ride * go along for the ride * joy ride * Nantucket sleigh ride * ride cymbal * white-knuckle ridefly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Scots flee, Dutch vlieg, German Fliege, Swedish fluga.Noun
(flies)Runaway Devils Lake, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies . […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies .}}
- a trifling fly , none of your great familiars
- (Massinger)
Derived terms
* blackfly * blowfly * botfly * caddis fly * cranefly * damselfly * dragonfly * drain fly * firefly * fly agaric * fly on the wall * flyswatter * flyweight * fruit fly * gadfly * greenfly * horsefly * housefly * hoverfly * march fly * mayfly * moth fly * no flies on * sandfly, sand fly * sawfly * warble fly * whitefly * wouldn't hurt a flyExternal links
* (wikipedia) * (Muscidae)Etymology 2
From (etyl) flien, from (etyl) . More at flow.Verb
- Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
On a bright new wing, passage=Flying using only the power of the sun is an enticing prospect. But manned solar-powered aircraft are fragile and slow, […].}}
- Sleep flies the wretch.
- to fly the favours of so good a king
- Whither shall I fly to escape their hands?
- Fly , ere evil intercept thy flight.
- He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly , you fools!” he cried, and was gone.
- The brave black flag I fly .
On a bright new wing, passage=A solar-powered unmanned aerial system (a UAS, more commonly called a drone) could fly long, lonely missions that conventional aircraft would not be capable of.}}
- Fly , envious Time, till thou run out thy race.
- The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on.
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.}}
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (travel through air) soar, hover, wing, skim, glide, ascend, rise, float, aviate * (flee) escape, flee, abscondAntonyms
* (travel through air) walk * (flee) remain, stayDerived terms
* fly a kite * fly-by-night * fly into a rage * fly like a bird * fly like a rock * fly like the wind * fly off the handle * fly out the window * on the fly * overflyNoun
(flies)- As we left the house in my fly , which had been waiting, Van Helsing said:— ‘Tonight I can sleep in peace [...].’
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly , about anything.”}}
- (Totten)
- (Knight)
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* flyman * fly-coach * fly systemVerb
- Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.Adjective
(er)- be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing. (Charles Dickens, "Arcadia"; Household Words
Vol.7 p.381
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- He's pretty fly .