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sortie
[ sawr-tee ]
noun
- a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- a body of troops involved in such a movement.
- the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
verb (used without object)
sortied, sortieing.
- to go on a sortie; sally forth.
sortie
/ ˈ²õɔ˳Ùɪ /
noun
- (of troops, etc) the act of emerging from a contained or besieged position
- the troops doing this
- an operational flight made by one aircraft
- a short or relatively short return trip
verb
- intr to make a sortie
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
1680–90; < French, noun use of feminine past participle of sortir to go out
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
C17: from French: a going out, from sortir to go out
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The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats had apparently been all the rage prior to this - being eaten by crewmen as they flew nuclear bombers on long training sorties at the height of the Cold War.
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River are all part of the perfect Sunday sortie for the ‘Animal Control’ star.
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But this time the Russian plane wasn’t on a bombing sortie.
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"When Russian forces deployed to Syria in 2015, they flew almost 300 sorties in two weeks, and that was before base expansion," she wrote on X.
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The first aerial sorties went up at midnight on Bastille Day, July 14.
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