Resort vs Expect - What's the difference?
resort | expect |
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).
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
* Milton
To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
* Clarendon
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To fall back; to revert.
* Sir M. Hale
To make one's way, go (to).
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
An act of sorting again.
* 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer , Volume 16:
(obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
* Francis Bacon
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
As verbs the difference between resort and expect
is that resort is to have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration or resort can be to repeat a sorting process; sort again while expect is to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).As a noun 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.resort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- to have resort to violence
- Join with me to forbid him her resort .
- far from all resort of mirth
Verb
(en verb)- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
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- The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
- 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 resortEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- "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)- Some know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)
