resort

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

   to have resort to violence

   Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,

3. 3

   obsoleteA place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

   Far from all reſort of mirth,

4. 4

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

verb

1. 1

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

   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.

2. 2

   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.

   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.

3. 3

   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.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of re-sortAlternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)

noun

1. 1

   Variant of re-sortAlternative 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.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteActive power or movement; spring.

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

Forms

plural

resorts

past tense

resorted

past participle

resorted

present participle

resorting

third person singular

resorts