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sortie
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As a noun, sortie means an attack made by troops from a besieged position. As a verb, it means carry out a sortie.
Meanings of sortie
10 meaningsnoun
militaryalso attributivelyfigurativelyAn attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
militaryalso attributivelyfiguratively(aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
(figuratively) An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
(figuratively) (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 military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Similar: sally
verb
To carry out a sortie; to sally.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).