sortie

Borrowed from French sortie (“exit, end”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.ti/, /sɔˈti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹ.ti/, /sɔɹˈti/

sortie (plural sorties)

1. (military) An attack made by troops from a besieged position.
2. (military) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.

   Russia said it carried out 55 sorties in the last 24 hours.

3. (figuratively, sports) An attacking move

sortie (third-person singular simple present sorties, present participle sortying or sortieing, simple past and past participle sortied)

1. (transitive) To sally.

• (an offensive military mission): scramble

• Storie, Tories, restio, storie, tiroes, tories, triose, œstri

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”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.ti/

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sortie f (plural sorties)

1. exit, way out

   Antonym: entrée

2. act of exiting
3. end; final part of
4. release (of a film, book, album etc)

   Synonyms: édition, parution

5. (school) outing, trip (lasting no longer than a day)
6. (military) leave, sally, sortie
7. (electronics) output, connector

   Synonym: prise

The meaning "end, release" is used of things such as school, theater etc. where a literal "exit" also occurs.

• entrée

sortie

1. feminine singular of the past participle of sortir

• “sortie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• orties, rôties, seroit, sirote, siroté