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Boutique vs Resort - What's the difference?

boutique | resort |

As nouns the difference between boutique and resort

is that boutique is while resort is a place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging|lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment or resort can be an act of sorting again or resort can be (obsolete) active power or movement; spring.

As a verb resort is

to have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration or resort can be to repeat a sorting process; sort again.

boutique

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Specialized in bespoke or custom-made products or services for clientele in a niche market.
    • : a boutique law firm

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
  • A small shop located within a larger one.
  • A film production company making only a few movies per year.

    • resort

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging, lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
  • Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
    • to have resort to violence
  • * Shakespeare
    • Join with me to forbid him her resort .
  • (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
  • * Milton
    • far from all resort of mirth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
  • * Clarendon
    • The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • To fall back; to revert.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
  • To make one's way, go (to).
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
    • 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.
    Derived terms
    * last resort

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to repeat a sorting process; sort again

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of sorting again.
  • * 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer , Volume 16:
    • "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 3

    (etyl) ressort.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Some know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

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