resort

Forms

1.A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
2.Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
3.A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
4.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.

1.To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
- 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.
2.To fall back; to revert.
- 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.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.
4.Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)

Uncommon· #3312

From Middle English resorten

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