sortie
IPA: sˈɔrti
noun
- (military, also attributively and figuratively)
- An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
- (aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
- (by extension)
- An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
- (figuratively)
- An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
- (sports) An attacking move.
- (astronautics) An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
- (military) Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
- (photography) A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To carry out a sortie; to sally.
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Examples of "sortie" in Sentences
- This was the last sortie of Doran.
- It was her fourth sortie of the day.
- The sortie of the U.K. army began in the morning.
- For the military, the cost of a sortie is critical.
- The objective of the sortie remain unclear to the day.
- A sortie from Himring destroyed the remnants of the Orcs.
- A sortie is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit.
- At night the Greeks made a sortie and burnt the towers down.
- For Goodrich, the sortie was her first humanitarian mission.
- After a successful sortie in the dark, the squadron split up.
- However, a sortie of the garrison of Astrakhan drove back the besiegers.
- The battle was the second French sortie from Paris against the German armies.
- He managed to shoot down the Starfighter, but failed to return from the sortie.
- The object of the sortie was a vague idea to push forward, if possible, to Versailles.
- Scrap the Constellation 'sortie' (Apollo redux) program and replace it with a dedicated lunar base program.
- As for the sortie, which is to revictual Paris, by forcing the Prussian lines, it is simply absurd to talk of it.
- The moment the rock was thought to be in a state of sufficient security, the party who composed what might be called the sortie, sallied forth on their anxious expedition.
- Then the German general struck in with emphasis, 'I regret that I cannot do what you ask,' he said; 'but as to making a sortie, that is just as impossible as the defence of Sedan.
- This plan, which came to be called a sortie, involved the maximum number of tanks, equipped with the Rhino device, that could be brought into position, allowing for the variation of the terrain.