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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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softie
English
Etymology
soft +? -ie
Noun
softie (plural softies)
- Alternative form of softy
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