resort

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   have recourse to

   The government resorted to rationing meat

2. 2
   noun

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

   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?

3. 3
   noun

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

   to have resort to violence

4. 4
   noun

   A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

   Far from all reſort of mirth,

5. 5
   verb

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

   The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

6. 6
   verb

   To 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.

7. 7
   verb

   To 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.

8. 8
   noun

   Alternative 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.

Etymology

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).