sortie : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sortie	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sortie n a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position Synonym(s): sortie, sally (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.