sortie
sortie
Definition
sor·tie (sôrt′ē, sôr tē′)
noun
- a sudden rushing forth; sally; specif., a quick raid on besiegers by those besieged
- the forces making such a raid
- one mission by a single military plane
Etymology: Fr < sortir, to issue, go out < VL *sortire, prob. < L sortitus, chosen, selected by lot, pp. of sortiri < sors: see sort
sortie
Synonyms
sortie
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- fly: A total of ten aircraft took part, flying 126 ground attack sorties from HMS Hermes.
- flow: Sorties flown on June 9 were flown at maximum capacity.
- conduct: Joan Fairhurst has been conducting sorties from the Outdoor Education Center which have boosted the figure.
- lead: These sorties led to detachments being sent to France, under the cover name of Special Survey Flights.
- make: The RAF made 110 sorties by Spitfires & 15 sorties by Hurricanes during the day & shot down 15 German aircraft.
- undertake: The RCAHMS aerial survey program has now undertaken some 1,100 sorties, producing over 100,000 images.
Preposition: over
Adjective modifier
- operational: The hard work meant crews were flying operational sorties within 36 hrs of arriving in theater.
- low-level: These Alpha Jets were captured by Martin Cole on a low-level sortie with the Hawks in the Welsh hills.
- armed: Following its arrival, the squadron flew armed reconnaissance sorties in support of British troops in the French colony.
- occasional: Occasional sorties to higher speeds were, however, painless enough.
- routine: Mid-March saw 15 members of the Sqn make use of a routine training sortie to visit Bissegem airfield in Belgium.
- brief: They gather momentum around the homes and reach a climax at the Manor, followed by a brief sortie to the Cross.
Modifies a noun
- map: This can then be looked up in the sortie map index, to give a list of sorties that covered that general area.
Noun used with modifier
- reconnaissance: Numerous reconnaissance sorties were flown over the Aegean to track enemy shipping.
- bombing: In all over 3,000 missions were carried out including 21 night bombing sorties.
- combat: Tariq Aziz said that these jets had carried out 76 combat air sorties between October 16 and 23.
- air: During the Kosovo campaign the United States was relied on to conduct almost 85 per cent of air strike sorties.
- night: In all over 3,000 missions were carried out including 21 night bombing sorties.
- training: A typical training sortie would involve a four hour flight cross-country, involving simulated radar bombing runs against selected targets.
