different between resort vs presort

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?(?)t/

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

   to have resort to violence
3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (riz?to)
• ? Portuguese: resort
• ? Spanish: resort

Derived terms

• seaside resort
• Silverado Resort

Translations

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

1. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

     He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]
2. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
   • 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England

     The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
3. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:

     The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.

Derived terms

• last resort

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? sort

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??s?(?)t/

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To repeat a sorting process; sort again.

Alternative forms

• re-sort

Translations

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. An act of sorting again.
   • 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:

     "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

Etymology 3

From French ressort.

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Cunning

     Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

Further reading

• resort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• resort at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, retros, roster, sorter, storer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English resort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?z?rt/
• Hyphenation: re?sort
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

resort n (plural resorts)

1. A resort (place with recreational environment for holidays).

Polish

Etymology

From French ressort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.s?rt/

Noun

resort m inan

1. government department

   Synonym: ministerstwo

2. (colloquial) jurisdiction (power or right to exercise authority)

   Synonym: kompetencje

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) resortowy

Further reading

• resort in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• resort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English resort.

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (a relaxing environment for people on vacation)

Spanish

Etymology

From English resort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?so?t/, [re?so?t?]

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (place for vacation)

English

Etymology

pre- +? sort

Verb

presort (third-person singular simple present presorts, present participle presorting, simple past and past participle presorted)

1. (transitive) To sort in advance.

   Mail is presorted by postcode prior to transfer into the postal delivery system.

   Please presort your waste so that it can be recycled.

   The algorithm runs faster if the data is presorted.

Translations

Anagrams

• Trosper, perrots, porrets, porters, pretors, proters, reports, sporter, tropers