单词 | sortie |
释义 | sortien.ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > knot of ribbon worn between bonnet and pinner sortiea1685 a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) 20 Sorti, a little Knot of small Ribbon, peeping out between the Pinner and Bonnet. c1691 Songs & Poems Costume (Percy Soc.) 200 Her shabbarons next I'll show, Her sortie, and patches of black. 2. a. A dash or sally by a besieged garrison upon an investing force. Frequently in to make a sortie. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > discontinuing of siege > sally issuea1450 excourse?1520 sally1560 sallying1560 a sault out1560 out-sally1598 outfall1637 sortie1778 razoo1864 1778 H. Walpole Let. 8 Oct. (1967) XXIV. 413 Before their last sortie, one heard nothing but What news of the fleets? 1795 W. Seward Anecd. II. 217 If the enemy..thought fit to make any sortie from the town. 1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 285 In case your sortie should succeed (which will place the war on its legs again in the best manner). 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. vi. 138 To repel the sorties, made..by the militia of the capital. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §9. 557 A sortie from Dublin had already broken up Ormond's siege of the capital. b. Without article. ΚΠ 1845 D. Costello Tour Valley Meuse 156 Subterraneous passages..used for sortie and retreat by the garrison of the castle. c. attributive, as sortie corvette, sortie party. ΚΠ 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 2/1 I am not..aware that Germany..proposes to employ ‘sortie corvettes’ in the absence of guns or submarine mines. 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago iv The defeated sortie-party from Jago Court. d. An operational flight by a military aircraft. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation mission1910 air raid1914 sortie1918 hickboo1919 air punch1940 air strike1942 trade1942 1918 B. Hall En l'Air viii. 76 My machine was a single-seated Nieuport biplane... I carried 1,000 rounds of ammunition... An air sortie at dawn! 1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 19 Mar.–13 May 64/2 The main target of the R.A.F.'s night sorties is the industrial centre of Emden. 1955 Times 29 June 10/3 In the five active days of the test the two sides flew 12,347 sorties and simulated the dropping of over 300 atomic bombs. 1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 37 Then Waking..we were up..for New sorties. 1977 R.A.F. News 27 Apr. 11/3 The Phantom has an average sortie capability of more than 1½ hours. e. Photography. A series of aerial photographs taken during one flight; transferred, a photographic session. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > aerial photograph > series of sortie1953 1953 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. (ed. 2) i. 24 The unit of classification of prints is the sortie, that is, a series of prints taken on a single flight. Each sortie consists of one or more strips of prints, running approximately in an East-West direction, each print overlapping the next to East and West by about two-thirds of its width. 1953 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. (ed. 2) i. 24 Each print..is labelled at the top with the sortie-number. 1953 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. (ed. 2) i. 25 Sortie plots may be bought separately at the same charge per plot. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 229 One sortie when she was photographed sipping a soda she shaped the second straw into a heart. 1963 W. K. Kilford Elem. Air Survey x. 226 When the sortie is complete the film is processed... The relative position of each photograph..of the sortie is plotted. 1969 G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs xv. 246 A set of photographs taken during one flight is usually known as a sortie. 1969 G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs xv. 247 More detailed information about coverage is contained on index diagrams, known as sortie plots. 3. a. A sallyport. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > gate > [noun] > sallyport sally1542 sallyport1651 postern1704 sortie1848 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xii. vii. 332 Three sorties, whence the defenders might sally. b. An outlet (of a river). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > mouth or outfall mouthlOE issue1423 firthc1425 estuary15.. fall1511 port1555 inset1559 water mouth1574 open1582 emboguing1603 ostium1611 inver1615 outfall1629 ostiary1646 influx1652 disclosure1660 discharge1688 waterfoot1730 outflux1739 embouchure1792 sortie1809 beal1819 debouchure1832 salting-place1842 embouchement1844 debouchment1859 ria1887 1809 D. Thompson Jrnl. 18 Aug. (1950) ii. 31 The Sortie of the [stream] that falls into the [stream] at Deer's Horns Plains. 1879 19th Cent. 1121 The Kalamas has its sortie opposite Corfu. 4. attributive in Astronautics, designating spacecraft designed to return to earth after a period; so sortie mission. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [adjective] > type of spacecraft superorbital1959 man-rated1967 sortie1972 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 6/4 NASA also plans a ‘sortie module’, a laboratory for six scientists and engineers that would be carried in the orbiter's cargo bay for earth-orbit missions lasting from one to four weeks. 1972 New Scientist 6 July 3 NASA has offered Europe the ‘sortie can’—a pressurised laboratory module that is to swing out from the cargo bay of the orbiting shuttle. 1973 Times 15 June 27/7 Here the proposal is that Europe would develop a ‘sortie lab’ or ‘spacelab’ module. 1976 Lohman & Lee in L. G. Napolitano Space Activity Impact on Sci. & Technol. 108 In a series of flights, these aircraft duplicate the observations which would be conducted in a single sortie mission. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). sortiev. intransitive. To make a sortie; to sally. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)] > sally to fall out1535 breakc1540 sally1560 sail1583 sorta1600 sortie1899 1899 Westm. Gaz. 23 Nov. 7/2 Unsuccessful attempts to sortie are supposed to have been made. Derivatives ˈsortieing adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > sallying out-sallying1756 sallying1839 sortieing1871 1871 Standard 27 Jan. Pressing on, the sortying party advanced up the heights. 1904 Daily Chron. 23 May 5/1 To cover the movements of the sortieing force. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1685v.1871 |
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