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Definition: Sortie |
SortieNoun1. A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position. 2. An operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sortie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
Etymology: Sortie \Sor"tie\, noun. [French expression, from sortir to go out, to issue, probably from Latin sortus, for surrectus, past participle of surgere to raise up, to rise up. See Source.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Military & Defense | An operational flight by one aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SOM | French | Sortie d'ordinateur en microfilm | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SortieSynonym: sally (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sortie |
| English words defined with "sortie": Sally port. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sortie": admission and bed occupancy committee. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sortie" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (delivery, egress, exit, expenses, export, issuance, left, outflow, outing, outlet, output, readout, release, Sally, sortie, way out). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Maritime sortie (1957) Et par ici la sortie (1957) Une sortie du 'Rubis' (1950) Historische stoet. Eerste sortie. 3 augustus 1930 (1930) Ommegang 1930. Eerste sortie (1930) | |
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 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 24. L'Astrolabe arretee par un glacon avant sa sortie de la banquise, 9 Fevrier 1838. Parages Antarctiques. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Lt. Col. A.J. Britschgi (left) and Maj. Jim Gunn review the previous day's results as they prepare to take their F-15E Strike Eagle on a Gila Bomb competition sortie. The two are members of the 391st Fighter Squadron at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. |
 | U.S. Air Force Test Pilot school instructor Maj. Phil Edwards, left, prepares Lt. David Ramsey, a U.S. Naval Test Pilot School student, for an exchange program training sortie. (P.; photo by 1st Lt. Cris L'Esperance).. |  | RC-135 flies a combat sortie during Operation Allied Force. |
 | C-21A flies a training sortie. |  | At sea en route to Norway, circa 19-20 May 1941, prior to her Atlantic sortie. Photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Credit: NAVY. |
 | In a Norwegian fjord, 21 May 1941, shortly before departing for her Atlantic sortie. Photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Location is probably Grimstadfjord, just south of Bergen. Bismarck's camouflage was painted over before she departed the area. Credit: NAVY. |  | In Grimstadfjord, near Bergen, Norway, on 21 May 1941, just prior to her sortie into the Atlantic. Two merchant-type ships are also present. Photographed from a British Royal Air Force reconnaissance aircraft. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Campagne du Vice-Amiral [sic] Cte. d'Estaing en Amêrique, commandant une escadre de 12 vaisseaux de 4 fregattes, sortie de Toulon le 13 avril 1778. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Re-entry Visas: Residents who travel out of Cte d'Ivoire will need a "visa de sortie et de retour" before they travel. (references) |
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| "Sortie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sortie" is used about 111 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 111 | 30,796 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sortie": air sortie ♦ imagery sortie ♦ photographic sortie ♦ sortie number ♦ sortie plot ♦ sortie reference. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sortie | 32 |
sortie tv | 12 |
bain de sortie | 11 |
dvd sortie | 9 |
cinema sortie | 5 |
fatale sortie | 5 |
paris sortie | 3 |
en famille sortie | 3 |
bomb sortie | 2 |
sortie video | 2 |
guide paris sortie | 2 |
en moselle sortie | 2 |
dvi sortie | 2 |
signal sortie | 2 |
caisse sacs sortie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sortie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mësymje (assault, attack, drive, onset, pelt, raid, rush, thrust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هجمة (offensive, sally), غارة (descent, incursion, inroad, pinch, raid), طلعة جوية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вилазка, излитане за сражение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 出动架次. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výpad (drive, lunge, pass, Sally, swipe, thrust), bojový let. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sorti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vlucht (flight, run, swarm), operationele vlucht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یورش اوردن (Raid, Sally, Storm), یورش (Assault, Attack, Offense, Offensive, Onrush, Onslaught, Pash, Pounce, Raid, Rush, Sally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | operatiivinen lentotehtävä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sortie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ausfall (blackout, breakdown, cancellation, dropping out, failure, loss, lunge, non-departure, omission, pass, retirement, Sally, stoppage, thrust), Feindflug. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξόρμηση (campaign, dash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ז וק (dart, dash, jump, leap, pounce, spring, start, swoop, take off), "תקפ" (assault, attack, offence, offensive, onfall, onset, thrust), 'יח" (dash, debouchment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kitörés (break out, break-out, burst, bursting, ejaculation, eruption, explosion, extrusion, flaw, gust, lunge, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, sally, shooting, shy, spirt, tantrum), kirohanás (sally), bevetés (action, application, commitment, deployment, mission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sortita (Sally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 出' (sally), ソーダ石灰 (saute, Seoul, soap, soarer, social worker, society, socket, socks, Socrates, soda lime, solar, solar system, sonata, sort, sorting, soul, sword, Turkish baths associated with prostitution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅつ'き (sally), ソーティー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 출격 (Sallies, sally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goll magh (egress, exit, go out, issuing, outgoing, outward bound, retire, slip out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortiesay sortida, saída (blow-off, canal, departure, door, drop-off, egress, escape, escapement, exhaust, exit, exodus, leave, out, outfall, outing, outlet, output, sally, turn-out, way out). (various references) zbor operativ, ieşire (eduction, egress, emergence, eruption, exit, issue, out, outgo, outing, pleasuring, solution). (various references) вылазка. (various references) ispad (sally), borbeni let. (various references) salida (demand, departure, deportation, egress, emancipation, emergence, exit, export, gateway, going, killing, off, outcome, outflow, outlet, output, putting to sea, recourse, rise, rising, sale, Sally, start, turn, turn off, walkout, way out). (various references) utfall (fulmination, issue, lunge, pass, result, sally, turnout), uppdrag (assignation, assignment, charge, commission, duty, errand, mission, order), kort utflykt. (various references) โจมตีเข้าไปในเขตศัตรู ("้วยจำนวนน้อยกว่า). (various references) sorti yapmak, sorti, limandan çıkmak, hücum (access, aggression, assault, attack, bully, charge, dash, forage, incursion, offensive, onrush, onset, raid, rush, scrimmage, storm, thrust), bombardıman uçuşu, çıkış harekâtı yapmak, çıkış (ascent, boom, check out, egress, exit, hit, issue, out, outlet, outrun, power output, rising, start, starting, up, way out). (various references) виліт (gab), вилазка (outfall). (various references) lần xuất kích. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sortie": sortied, sortieing, sorties. (additional references) | |
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"Sortie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cortie, estorie, Ortlieb, Osetia, Ostraea, Sarti, sarty, Sergipe, serite, Serti, snortie, snortine, sorie, soriel, sorite, sorptive, sorte, sortee, sorti, sortid, sortied, sortine, sortis, sortive, sortiy, sorty, sourie, storie, surty, tortie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sortie" (pronounced sô"rtē) |
| 4 | -ô" r t ē | forty, Shorty, sporty. |
| 3 | -r t ē | Arty, concerti, hearty, multiparty, party. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tories, triose. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: osier, riots, rites, roset, rotes, rotis, store, tiers, tires, tiros, tores, torse, torsi, tries, trios, trois. | |
-2 letters: eros, erst, ires, ores, orts, reis, rest, rets, riot, rise, rite, roes, rose, rote, roti, rots, sire, site, sore, sori, sort, stir, tier, ties, tire, tiro, toes, tore, tori, tors, trio. | |
-3 letters: ers, ire, its, oes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: editors, erotics, erotism, estriol, forties, goiters, goitres, goriest, heriots, hoister, loiters, moister, mortise, norites, oestrin, orbiest, orients, prostie, reposit, rioters, riposte, roister, ropiest, rosiest, shortie, sootier, sorites, sortied, sorties, steroid, stonier, storied, stories, stourie, toilers, triodes, trioses, trisome. | |
+2 letters: amortise, asteroid, atomiser, bisector, bornites, citreous, cloister, cointers, coistrel, cordites, corkiest, corniest, cortices, costlier, coteries, cottiers, cowrites, crosstie, deorbits, digestor, diopters, dioptres, diorites, dorkiest, ergotism, erotisms, erotizes, esoteric, estriols, evictors, excitors, exorcist, firepots, forfeits, forkiest, frostier, genitors, ghostier, gorsiest, grodiest, heritors, hoariest, hoisters, horniest, horsiest, imposter, instroke, intoners, introrse, investor, isometry, isothere, isotherm, jarosite, jointers, misroute, miswrote, moisture, mooriest, mortices, mortised, mortiser, mortises, motorise, notaries, noticers, oestrins, oestriol, omitters, oneriest, orbiters, ornithes, outcries, outfires, outliers, outraise, outrides, outsider, overstir, overtips, peridots, pieforts, pierrots, poetiser, poetries, pointers, poitrels, porkiest, porniest, postfire, prosiest, prosties, proteids, proteins, reitboks, reposits, resistor, retinols, riposted, ripostes, rockiest, roiliest, roisters, rookiest, roomiest, rootiest, rotaries, rotifers, roupiest, routines, rowdiest, sautoire, senorita, serosity, serotine, servitor, setiform, shorties, snootier, snottier, snoutier, sobriety, sorptive, sorriest, sportier, sportive, spottier, steroids, stockier, stodgier, stolider, stormier, strigose, strobile, tenorist, ternions, theories, theorise, theorist, thorites, tiresome, toastier, topsider, tortoise, travoise, trefoils, triolets, triposes, trisomes, tritones, trollies, trophies, tropines, tyrosine, vertigos, viatores, virtuose, vitreous, vomiters, vortices, votaries, wordiest, wormiest, worthies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 72 74 69 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. - .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o r t i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0072 0074 0069 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538184867571 |
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