resort
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
Etymology: From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
Inflected forms:
form: resorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: resorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
pos: noun
examples: Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
gloss: Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
pos: noun
examples: to have resort to violence
Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,
gloss: A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Far from all reſort of mirth,
gloss: A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
pos: noun
gloss: To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]
Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.
The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.
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.
gloss: To fall back; to revert.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion.
I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
gloss: To make one's way, go (to).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: court of last resort
drug of last resort
ecoresort
health resort
lender of last resort
letter of last resort
megaresort
resort charge
resorter
resort fee
resortlike
resort town
seaside resort
Silverado Resort
ski resort
summer resort
last resort
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