What's the difference between ride and rite?

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.

Rite


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
  • (2) If that is not possible, they should issue visas on an urgent basis for their families so that they can travel to the US and perform the last rites."
  • (3) The challenge of eliminating the practice in a culture that sees it as a rite of passage is huge, but the stakes couldn't be higher.
  • (4) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
  • (5) Chinese authorities in Aba refused to allow locals to carry out traditional funeral rites for Gepey so as not to provide an opportunity for Tibetans to gather and protest, Free Tibet said.
  • (6) At the same time, only half of millennials have a driver’s licence, a rite of passage for prior generations.
  • (7) It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things.” Indigenous prisoner who killed himself wasn't in a 'safe' cell despite being at risk Read more He said a Labor government would fund three trials – in a city, a regional town and a remote community – of “justice reinvestment” programs, “redirecting funds spent on justice system to prevention and diversionary programs to address underlying causes of offending with disproportionately high levels of incarceration”.
  • (8) The authors present their experience with 28 patients who had incurred unstable thoracic or lumbar spine fractures and who were intraoperatively stabilized with the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (TSRH) universal instrumentation system.
  • (9) Rigorous training Mentors receive rigorous training and use a "rites of passage" approach where mentees are encouraged to form strong and enduring bonds to the older men who guide them.
  • (10) He may also have been giving the last rites, but he picked up the rifle."
  • (11) You need to go through rites of passage that only a man can do.
  • (12) For young people in Hartlepool, one of the most deprived parts of the country, going to university is more than just a rite of passage.
  • (13) In the summer of 1982, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.) sponsored a camp for paraplegic adolescents.
  • (14) The "teenager" has proved a highly workable rite of passage for the past 70 years.
  • (15) Are we talking about a religious rite--or about child abuse?
  • (16) His life reads like a blockbuster of its own – after Tribal Rites he continued writing, true stories mostly, and in 1983 was arrested for conspiring to import millions of dollars worth of heroin and cocaine into the US.
  • (17) Child marriage: we must urge action to stop girls' initiation rites | Persilia Muianga Read more The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, promised to end child marriage of under-15s by 2021 and reduce by more than one-third the number of girls married between the ages of 15 and 18, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the practice by 2041.
  • (18) All patients were treated by bracing at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital from 1970 to 1980.
  • (19) While Respond is supportive of people with learning disabilities who are able to give consent and do make the decision to get married freely, Khan is keen to stress the importance of providing support for those who may be pressured into doing so: “Through our referral service, we aim to work towards removing labels which further victimise people, taking each case on its own merit and working with people to fully understand what is actually happening within each situation.” She explains how nuanced some of the cases can be: Within many families there can be a belief that marriage is a rite of passage and some families may even perhaps wish or hope that it will “cure” the person of learning disabilities.
  • (20) It has long been a painful rite of passage for German schoolchildren – learning "die Schreibschrift", a fiddly form of joined-up handwriting all pupils are expected to have mastered by the time they leave primary school.

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