resort

plural resorts

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

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   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?

   2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53

   Synonyms: playground

2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

   to have resort to violence

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   Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,

   c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 81, column 2

3. obsoleteA place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

   Far from all reſort of mirth,

   a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 40

4. governmentA subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.

present singular third person resorts · participle present resorting · participle past resorted · past resorted

1. intransitiveTo have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

   The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

   1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater

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   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 […]

   1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

   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.

   1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 767

   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.

   1959 November, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification retrospect”, in Trains Illustrated, page 544

   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.

   2012 January 28, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60

2. intransitiveTo fall back; to revert.

   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.

   1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Course of Descents in England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 211

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   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.

   2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65

3. intransitiveTo make one's way, go (to).

   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.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

present singular third person resorts · participle present resorting · participle past resorted · past resorted

1. alternativeintransitivetransitiveAlternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)

plural resorts

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of re-sort.

   "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.

   1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16

plural resorts

1. obsoleteActive power or movement; spring.

   Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

   1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC