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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French sortie (“exit, end”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.ti/, /sɔˈti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɹ.ti/, /sɔɹˈti/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun[edit]
sortie (plural sorties)
- (military) An attack made by troops from a besieged position.
- (military) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
- Russia said it carried out 55 sorties in the last 24 hours.
- 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
- (figuratively, sports) An attacking move
Translations[edit]
an attack made by troops from a besieged position — see sally
an operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft
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Verb[edit]
sortie (third-person singular simple present sorties, present participle sortying or sortieing, simple past and past participle sortied)
- (transitive) To sally.
Synonyms[edit]
- (an offensive military mission): scramble
Translations[edit]
to sally
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Feminine past participle of sortir; from Latin sortīrī, present active infinitive of sortior (“cast lots, divide, receive”), possibly influenced by a derivative of surgō (“get up, arise”). Compare Italian sortire (“produce”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sortie f (plural sorties)
- exit, way out
- Antonym: entrée
- act of exiting
- end; final part of
- release (of a film, book, album etc)
- (school) outing, trip (lasting no longer than a day)
- (military) leave, sally, sortie
- (electronics) output, connector
- Synonym: prise
Usage notes[edit]
The meaning "end, release" is used of things such as school, theater etc. where a literal "exit" also occurs.
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Participle[edit]
sortie
- feminine singular of the past participle of sortir
Further reading[edit]
- “sortie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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