Difference between Ride and Drive

What is the difference between Ride and Drive?

Ride as a verb is to transport oneself by means of a bicycle, horse, etc. while Drive as a verb is to herd (animals) in a particular direction.

Ride

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To transport oneself by means of a bicycle, horse, etc. To sit on and control an animal for sport or recreation. To be carried or supported by something with momentum. To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman. To copulate while sexually mounted on; have sexual intercourse with (a woman). To obsess; to nag.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of riding. A vehicle. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. a bridleway or other wide country path.

Example sentence: If you're going to wear a cowboy hat, you're going to have to go all the way. You should have livestock around you, settle all of your disputes with a pistol, and ride a horse absolutely everywhere.

Drive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.A trip made in a motor vehicle.A driveway.A type of public roadway.Desire or interest.An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.A stroke made with a driver.A ball struck in a flat trajectory.A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To herd (animals) in a particular direction.To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.To cause animals to flee out of.To move (something) by hitting it with great force.To cause (a mechanism) to operate.To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).To motivate; to provide an incentive for.To compel (to do something).To cause to become.To hit the ball with a drive.To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

Example sentence: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

We hope you now know whether to use Ride or Drive in your sentence.

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