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sortie::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sally |
| Type of | action, military action |
Examples of sortie
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With much depending more on luck than strategy, the first sortie was not a success.
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This invasion brought on the last great sortie of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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This made the threat of a sortie against the British Fleet a serious problem.
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A rare sortie into our half is immediately rewarded by a judgement of not releasing.
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It was not long after his first sortie to Cambridge that the young Hermann returned.
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The cavalry attacked the flank of the Byzantine sortie force and repulsed the sally.
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It pumped up a QVC stock value that had been cut sharply after the Paramount sortie.
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The sortie did not succeed and the siege works were left relatively intact.
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Later that month, he took off on a similar sortie with two other aircraft.
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- A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- Sortie is a term for 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.
- 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.
- 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; To sally
- (Sorties) A sortie is one trip by one plane. From June 27, 1950 to July 27, 1953, U.N. aircraft flew more than 1,040,708 close support, counter-air, interdiction, cargo and miscellaneous sorties in support of the U.N. military operations in Korea.
- A single mission by one aircraft.
- A type of counter-attack used to disrupt the enemy's attack or siege of a fortification, causing the enemy to divert some of its resources away from the initial attack or siege.
- One aircraft doing one trip to target and back
