different between assault vs sortie

English

Etymology

From Middle English assaut, from Old French noun assaut, from the verb asaillir, from Latin assili?, from ad (“towards”) + sali? (“to jump”). See also assail. Spelling Latinized around 1530 to add an l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s??lt/
• (regional, California) IPA^(key): /??s?lt/

Noun

assault (countable and uncountable, plural assaults)

1. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault.

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book 5

     Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.

2. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like

3. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him.
4. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
5. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
6. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
7. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.

Synonyms

• onfall, onrush

Coordinate terms

• battery

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

assault (third-person singular simple present assaults, present participle assaulting, simple past and past participle assaulted)

1. (transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.

   Tom was accused of assaulting another man outside a nightclub.

   Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.

2. (transitive) To threaten or harass. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Middle French

Noun

assault m (plural assauls)

1. (chiefly military) assault; attack

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sortie (“exit, end”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?.ti/, /s??ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s??.ti/, /s???ti/

Noun

sortie (plural sorties)

1. (military) An attack made by troops from a besieged position.
2. (military) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
   • 2019, Jeff Foust, “NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea,” IEEE Spectrum:

     Finally, the astronauts will descend to the lunar surface. After their sortie on the moon, they’ll return to the orbital station

3. (figuratively, sports) An attacking move

Translations

Verb

sortie (third-person singular simple present sorties, present participle sortying or sortieing, simple past and past participle sortied)

1. (transitive) To sally.

Synonyms

• (an offensive military mission): scramble

Translations

Anagrams

• Storie, Tories, oister, restio, storie, tiroes, tories, triose, œstri

French

Etymology

Feminine past participle of sortir; from Latin sort?r?, present active infinitive of sortior (“cast lots, divide, receive”), possibly influenced by a derivative of surg? (“get up, arise”). Compare Italian sortire (“produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ti/

Noun

sortie f (plural sorties)

1. exit, way out

   Antonym: entrée

2. act of exiting
3. end; final part of
4. release (of a film, book, album etc)

   Synonyms: édition, parution

5. (school) outing, trip (lasting no longer than a day)
6. (military) leave, sally, sortie
7. (electronics) output, connector

   Synonym: prise

Usage notes

The meaning "end, release" is used of things such as school, theater etc. where a literal "exit" also occurs.

Derived terms

See also

• entrée

Participle

sortie

1. feminine singular of the past participle of sortir

Further reading

• “sortie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orties, rôties, seroit, sirote, siroté