Resort

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɨˈzÉ”(ɹ)t/

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir ("to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal"), back-formation from sortir ("to go out").

Full definition of resort

Noun

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).to have resort to violence
• ShakespeareJoin with me to forbid him her resort.
3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
• Miltonfar from all resort of mirth

Verb

1. To make one's way, go (to).
• 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
2. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
• ClarendonThe king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
• 2012-01, Stephen Ledoux, Behaviorism at 100, Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
3. To fall back; to revert.
• Sir M. HaleThe inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.

Derived terms

• last resort

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌɹiːˈsÉ”(ɹ)t/

- + sort

Verb

1. to repeat a sorting process; sort again

Noun

1. An act of sorting again.
• 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:"If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

French ressort.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
• Francis BaconSome ... know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

Anagrams

• retros
• roster
• sorter
• storer