What's the difference between drive and ride?

Drive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
  • (v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
  • (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.
  • (v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
  • (v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
  • (v. i.) To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
  • (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
  • (v. i.) To distrain for rent.
  • (p. p.) Driven.
  • (n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
  • (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • (n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
  • (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (3) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
  • (4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (5) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (6) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
  • (7) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
  • (8) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
  • (9) Analysis of caloric components (fat, protein and carbohydrates) reveals that carbohydrates are the most important factor driving the total energy effect.
  • (10) The solution of these differential equations gives the velocity of the basilar membrane and hence other related quantities, e.g., displacement, pressure, driving-point impedance at the stapes.
  • (11) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
  • (12) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
  • (13) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (14) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
  • (15) "But it is necessary to collect tax that is owed and it is necessary to reduce tax avoidance and the crown dependencies and the overseas territories need to play their part in that drive and they need to do more."
  • (16) However, there are conflicting views as to the way these patients drive.
  • (17) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
  • (18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
  • (19) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
  • (20) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.

Ride


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
  • (v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
  • (v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
  • (v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
  • (v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
  • (v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
  • (v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
  • (v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
  • (v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
  • (v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
  • (n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
  • (n.) A saddle horse.
  • (n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (3) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (4) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
  • (5) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
  • (6) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
  • (8) For services to Business and the community in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
  • (9) Unless a leader is riding 20 points high in the polls, speculation will mount about their fitness for the job.
  • (10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (11) Didi Chuxing also claims it accounts for 87% of China’s ride-hailing market, in which US-based Uber is trying to break through.
  • (12) The voices in the soundtrack are those of real refugees who guide the viewer through the experience – from arriving in an unfamiliar city to acute worry for loved ones left behind, concern about not being allowed to work, and the Home Office interview on which so much rides .
  • (13) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
  • (14) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
  • (15) Conte’s tenure as national manager has been anything other than a smooth ride.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
  • (17) The ride-sharing story illustrates the promise of these new businesses – and the dangers.
  • (18) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (19) One team told her the sponsor had dropped out so she would have to ride for nothing.
  • (20) In addition, each ride has specific risk assessments to ensure that these processes are current.” He added: “As well as the daily assessment and testing, all rides are verified regularly by independent inspectors in compliance with the HSE guidelines for safe operation.