resort
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[edit] English
[edit] 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”).
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resort (plural resorts)
- A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
- recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety)
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a relaxing environment to people on vacation
something or someone turned to for safety
[edit] Verb
resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- 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.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
- To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
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to have recourse out of necessity or frustration
[edit] Etymology 2
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- IPA: /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/
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resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- to repeat a sorting process, see sort
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to repeat a sorting process
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resort (plural resorts)
- an act of resorting
- 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.
- 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:
[edit] External links
- resort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- resort in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- resort at OneLook Dictionary Search