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RIDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A clause that is appended to a legislative bill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):
article; clause (a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will))
Holonyms ("rider" is a part of...):
bill; measure (a statute in draft before it becomes law)
legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
Synonyms:
passenger; rider
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Domain category:
railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)
auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)
autobus; bus; charabanc; coach; double-decker; jitney; motorbus; motorcoach; omnibus; passenger vehicle (a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport)
boat (a small vessel for travel on water)
aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rider"):
commuter (someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city)
fare (a paying (taxi) passenger)
hitchhiker (a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles)
stowaway (a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage)
straphanger (a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support)
Derivation:
ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rider"):
hang glider (a rider of a hang glider)
equestrian; horseback rider; horseman (a man skilled in equitation)
pedaler; pedaller (a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle))
Derivation:
ride (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Derivation:
ride (sit on and control a vehicle)
Context examples:
In the ruffled mane, the rider's breezy hair and erect attitude, there was a suggestion of suddenly arrested motion, of strength, courage, and youthful buoyancy that contrasted sharply with the supine grace of the 'Dolce far Niente' sketch.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
That can only mean that the rider is throwing his weight on to the handle-bar, as a man does when he is sprinting.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is more than she can master, like a heavy spear to a light rider.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I leaped to my feet and hailed the riders.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He did not believe there was a bolder rider in England!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But he curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The languid loungers of St. James’s were also the yachtsmen of the Solent, the fine riders of the shires, and the hardy fighters in many a wayside battle and many a morning frolic.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was my good fortune, that no ill accident happened in these entertainments; only once a fiery horse, that belonged to one of the captains, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole in my handkerchief, and his foot slipping, he overthrew his rider and himself; but I immediately relieved them both, and covering the hole with one hand, I set down the troop with the other, in the same manner as I took them up.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This track, as you perceive, was made by a rider who was going from the direction of the school.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Away they drove down the long green glade—bay horses, black and gray, riders clad in every shade of velvet, fur, or silk, with glint of brazen horn and flash of knife and spear.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
