different between onslaught vs sortie

English

Etymology

From anslaight (compare Dutch aanslag and German Anschlag), equivalent to on- +? slaught.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nsl??t/

Noun

onslaught (plural onslaughts)

1. A fierce attack.

   Synonym: onrush

2. (by extension) A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

Translations

See also

• slew

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