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Rided vs Riped - What's the difference?

rided | riped |

As verbs the difference between rided and riped

is that rided is (nonstandard) (ride) while riped is (ripe).

rided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (ride)
  • Anagrams

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    ride

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
  • * 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :
  • Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
  • * 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
  • I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
  • * 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.
  • (transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
  • * 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.
  • The cab rode him downtown.
  • Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
  • * Dryden
  • Men once walked 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
  • (intransitive) 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.
  • To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
  • A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
  • (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 :
  • 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 [...].
  • * 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:
  • She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
  • (colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
  • * 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:
  • “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
  • Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
  • * 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.
  • To rely, depend (on).
  • * 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.
  • 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 , 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.
  • (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
  • To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
  • To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
  • (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
  • 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 punches

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of riding.
  • Can I have a ride on your bike?
  • (informal) A vehicle.
  • That is a nice ride you are driving.
  • An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
  • A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
  • Can you give me a ride ?
  • (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
  • (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
  • (Wright)

    Derived terms

    * bike-and-ride * free ride * go along for the ride * joy ride * Nantucket sleigh ride * ride cymbal * white-knuckle ride

    riped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ripe)
  • Anagrams

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    ripe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
  • * Milton
  • So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
  • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
  • (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
  • (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
  • Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  • * Addison
  • while things were just ripe for a war
  • * Burke
  • I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
  • *
  • Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1981, author=Daniel Curzon, title=Human Warmth & Other Stories, isbn=0912516542 citation
  • passage=He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.}}
  • (obsolete) Intoxicated.
  • * 1611, (William Shakespeare), , Act V, Scene 1,
  • Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe : where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
  • (legal) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, author=Kenneth F. Warren, title=Administrative Law in the Political System, isbn=0813341167 citation
  • passage=Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe , however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.}}
  • Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, author=Colum McCann, title=Fishing the Sloe-Black River, isbn=0312423381 citation
  • , passage=Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.}}
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * unripe
    Derived terms
    * ripeness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1993, page=76, author=Paul J. Dosal, title=Doing Business with the Dictators, isbn=0842024395 citation
  • , passage=When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.}}

    Verb

    (rip)
  • To ripen or mature
  • * 1594 , , Act II Scene VIII,
  • ALONSO:

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) ripa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bank of a river.
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