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attack
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /??tæk/, [??t?æk]
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
attack (plural attacks)
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- Synonyms: hit, spike
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- Antonyms: decay, release
- (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked)
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Translations
Further reading
- attack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- attack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- attack at OneLook Dictionary Search
Swedish
Etymology
From French attaque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?tak/
Noun
attack c
- attack; an attempt to cause damage
- attack; offense of a battle
Declension
Synonyms
- anfall
Related terms
- attackera
Derived terms
- hjärtattack
Anagrams
- tackat
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sortie
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)
- (military) An attack made by troops from a besieged position.
- (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
- 2019, Jeff Foust, “NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea,” IEEE Spectrum:
- (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)
- (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)
- exit, way out
- Antonym: entrée
- act of exiting
- end; final part of
- release (of a film, book, album etc)
- Synonyms: édition, parution
- (school) outing, trip (lasting no longer than a day)
- (military) leave, sally, sortie
- (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
- 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
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