different between onset vs sortie

English

Etymology

From on- +? set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?s?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?s?t/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??n?s?t/

Noun

onset (plural onsets)

1. (archaic) An attack; an assault especially of an army.

   Synonym: storming

   • 1800, William Wordsworth, Six thousand Veterans

     Who on that day the word of onset gave.

2. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.

3. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.

   Synonym: anlaut

   Antonym: coda

   Coordinate terms: nucleus, coda, rime

   Holonym: syllable

4. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
5. A setting about; a beginning.

   Synonyms: start, beginning; see also Thesaurus:beginning

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Delays

     There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
6. (obsolete) Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare , Titus Andronicus, Act 1, Scene 1

     And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:

     And, for an onset, Titus, to advance

     Thy name and honourable family,

     Lavinia will I make my empress.

Translations

Verb

onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)

1. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
2. (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

References

• onset in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, set on, seton, steno, steno-, stone, tones

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