Resort
[rɪ'zɔːt] or [rɪ'zɔrt]
Definition
(n.) Active power or movement; spring.
(v. i.) To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
(v. i.) To fall back; to revert.
(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
(v.) The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
(v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
(v.) That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
Editor: Orville
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Go, repair, apply, have recourse, betake one's self.
n. [1]. Recourse.[2]. Haunt, den, retreat, place much frequented.[3]. Concourse, meeting, confluence.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assembly, betaking, repairing, haunt, frequentation, employment, recourse
ANT:Shunning, avoidance, forsaking, abandonment, desertion
SYN:Repair, fly, retire, retreat
ANT:Shun, ignore, avoid, discard
Checker: Nona
Definition
v.i. to go: to betake one's self: to have recourse: to apply.—n. act of resorting: a place much frequented: a haunt: resource: company.—n. Resort′er a frequenter.—Last resort the last means of relief the final tribunal—the French dernier ressort.
Edited by Clio
Unserious Contents or Definition
(SUMMER) A place where the tired grow more tired. From Eng. rest, and Grk. orizo, to limit. A place where rest is limited.
Checker: Marsha
Examples
- There was resort to an ostracism to decide between them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The enemy could not resort to our method to protect their men, because we had an inexhaustible supply of ammunition to draw upon and used it freely. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Not that, other than as a last resort, he replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He stooped a good deal, and plodded along in a slow pre-occupied manner, which made the bustling London thoroughfares no very safe resort for him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They naturally, therefore, resort as much as they can to the town, and desert the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Budmouth was her native place, a fashionable seaside resort at that date. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In my father's earlier time, and in his uncle's time before him, it was a place of business--really a place of business, and business resort. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In speaking of Edison's method of experimenting, another of his laboratory staff says: He is never hindered by theory, but resorts to actual experiment for proof. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many patents have been granted for apparatus operating on this principle, and it has been put to some practical use in country houses, and seaside resorts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It has been asserted by some city health officials that many cases of typhoid fever in cities can be traced to the unsanitary conditions existing in summer resorts. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The case fully stated, Mr. Bagnet resorts to his standard artifice for the maintenance of discipline. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Various methods were resorted to in order to keep mold and insects from spoiling the product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- However well deserved this piece of retaliation might have been, it was as vindictive a one as could well have been resorted to. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Some other method of increasing the production without lowering the quality of the printed sheet must be resorted to--and this is duplication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Voluntary enlistments had ceased throughout the greater part of the North, and the draft had been resorted to to fill up our ranks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A good many expedients were resorted to to keep the excursionists amused and satisfied. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Before resorting to torture, the teaching seems to be, see that you pump up a little justifiable moral indignation, and all will be well. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He played this part now with as much spirit as if his journey had been entirely successful, resorting at frequent intervals to his flask. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As to resorting to any legal adviser, even if she had known how to do so, it was scarcely to be thought of, for the same reason. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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