Hi Trinity, I saw this hub and found it to be an interesting topic, and later find out that it does have a lot of valuable information. The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.Spazticfish24 from New York on July 10, 2012: 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238).( music ) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
“You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. 2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22).2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.( radio, television, transitive ) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.( surgery ) To overlap (each other) said of bones or fractured fragments.1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers, brewers, and the like.To manage insolently at will to domineer over.( lacrosse ) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops.she's doing it again", The Observer, She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.( intransitive ) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).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on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February. 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, :.( intransitive ) To rely, depend (on).2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 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.( intransitive ) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease to ruckle.“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off. 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375.( transitive, colloquial ) To nag or criticize to annoy (someone).She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again. 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345.( intransitive, transitive, slang ) To mount (someone) to have sex with them to have sexual intercourse with.Ī horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. ( transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa ) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets. 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.( intransitive, transitive ) To be transported in a vehicle to travel as a passenger.2010, The Guardian, The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.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. Tuſher with a meſſage that a gentleman of London would ſpeak to him on urgent buſineſs. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted and ſent a man thence to Mr. From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH.