Crossword clues for sortie
sortie
- Place for an ace
- Attack from the air
- Quick raid
- Military maneuver
- Aerial combat mission
- Military raid
- Fighter pilot's mission
- Military raid from a strongpoint
- Military move
- Military mission
- Air mission
- Air combat mission
- Warplane mission
- Rapid counterattack
- Pilot's mission
- Mission for an ace
- Certain military strike
- Breakout by besieged garrison
- Bomber mission
- Battle maneuver
- Airman's assignment
- Air raid
- Aerial mission
- Aerial attack
- Bombing run
- Combat pilot's flight
- Raid — short trip
- Troop movement
- Incursion
- Military counterassault
- A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- An operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- Foray
- Sally forth
- Combat mission
- Combat flight
- Military movement
- Single aircraft mission
- Troop action
- Military attack
- Operational flight by a single aircraft
- Warplane's flight
- Sudden attack by troops
- Arrange extremely intense troop movement?
- Raid - short trip
- Type that is needed for a raid
- Sudden attack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sortie \Sor"tie\ (?; 277), n. [F., fr. sortir to go out, to issue, probably fr. L. sortus, for surrectus, p. p. of surgere to raise up, to rise up. See Source.] (Mil.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"attack of the besieged upon the besiegers," 1778, from French sortie (16c.), literally "a going out," noun use of fem. past participle of sortir "go out," from Vulgar Latin *surctire, from Latin surrectus, past participle of surgere "rise up" (see surge (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context military English) An offensive military mission. Used originally to mean an attack from a fortress, but most commonly used today to describe a single mission by a military aircraft. vb. (context transitive English) To sally.
WordNet
n. a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position [syn: sally]
(military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
Wikipedia
A sortie (from the French word meaning exit) is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint. The sortie, whether by one or more aircraft or vessels, usually has a specific mission. The sortie rate is the number of sorties that a given unit can support in a given time.
Sortie is the sixth album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and was recorded in Italy in 1966 and released on the GTA label. It features six tunes written by Lacy and performed by Lacy, Enrico Rava, Aldo Romano and Kent Carter.
Usage examples of "sortie".
When Bonaparte in his first Italian campaign had forced Wurmser to retreat into Mantua with 28,000 men, he directed Miollis, with only 4000 men, to oppose any sortie that might be attempted by the Austrian general.
General Menin sent out a sortie which destroyed or captured an enemy patrol.
Chaberton jeta son pardessus sur son epaule, fit passer sa canne de dessous son bras dans sa main, et se dirigea vers la sortie, suivi du client decide a ne pas le lacher.
The longest of my sorties was about 2 hours and the shortest only 15 minutes, but each one involved 20 full minutes of decompression at the start and 20 more of recompression at the end.
Tyrkowo from these sorties in a state of trance and fill our lungs with the air we have won the right to continue to breathe.
During the last of these sorties it is so much quieter everywhere here in the air that we conclude the balloon must be about to go up in some other part of the line.
One finds out that five hundred operational sorties have left their mark.
As engineer officer I am always out and about between sorties so as not to lose any chance of getting one extra aircraft serviceable.
Naltschik we make a few more sorties eastwards to the Terek front, beyond Mosdok.
In between we fly sorties in the northern sector north of the city where the front joins the Don.
Here especially the flak is extraordinarily heavy, the sorties are difficult.
Because of the uninterrupted sorties and the stiff fighting we have done since Stalingrad, we are greatly reduced in the number of aircraft we can daily put in the air.
In one of these attacks my record of operational sorties reaches the 1000 mark.
Between sorties we often chat about our native mountains and, of course, about skiing.
After several sorties based on Briansk we do indeed move back again to Charkow.