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Rider vs Multicycle - What's the difference?

rider | multicycle |

As a proper noun rider

is more often spelled ryder.

As a noun multicycle is

a kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.

As an adjective multicycle is

of or pertaining to more than one cycle.

rider

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle
  • (politics) a provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill
  • (by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
  • * A. S. Hardy
    • This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.
  • an amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements
  • A small, sliding piece of aluminium on a chemical balance, used to determine small weights
  • (UK, archaic) An agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller.
  • (obsolete) One who breaks in or manages a horse.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (math) A problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
  • An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • His mouldy money! half a dozen riders .
  • (mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
  • (shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
    • (Totten)
  • (nautical) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
  • A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A robber.
    • (Drummond)

    Derived terms

    * white rider (Conquest) * red rider (War) * black rider (Famine) * pale rider (Death)

    See also

    * allonge * driver * germane * passenger

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ----

    multicycle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.
  • A velocipede with more than three wheels; specifically, one developed in the 19th century with seven pairs of wheels, capable of carrying five to twelve men but steered by only one.

    • References

    * The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to more than one cycle.
  • * 2009 , David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface (page xix)
    • Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two.