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RESORT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of turning to for assistance

Example:

an appeal to his uncle was his last resort

Synonyms:

recourse; refuge; resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

aid; assist; assistance; help (the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

Derivation:

resort (have recourse to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something or someone turned to for assistance or security

Example:

took refuge in lying

Synonyms:

recourse; refuge; resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

resource (a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resort"):

shadow (refuge from danger or observation)

Derivation:

resort (have recourse to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A frequently visited place

Synonyms:

hangout; haunt; repair; resort; stamping ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resort"):

gathering place (a favorite haunt where people gather)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A hotel located in a resort area

Synonyms:

holiday resort; resort; resort hotel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resort"):

dude ranch (a holiday resort offering ranch activities (riding and camping))

honeymoon resort (a resort that caters to newlyweds)

ski resort (a resort with lodging and facilities for skiing)

Holonyms ("resort" is a part of...):

playground; resort area; vacation spot (an area where many people go for recreation)

Derivation:

resort (move, travel, or proceed toward some place)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move, travel, or proceed toward some place

Example:

He repaired to his cabin in the woods

Synonyms:

repair; resort

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "resort" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resort (a hotel located in a resort area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have recourse to

Example:

The government resorted to rationing meat

Synonyms:

fall back; recur; resort

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "resort" is one way to...):

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resort (act of turning to for assistance)

resort (something or someone turned to for assistance or security)

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 Context examples: 

Farmers resort to antibiotics, generally administered through animal feed or low-dose injections, to improve nutrition and hygiene for their livestock.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

Poor people often resort to chemicals to control mould growth in the home, but these can exacerbate respiratory diseases and are not a sustainable and safe prevention method.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

Fishermen engaged in illegal fishing of sharks usually resort to finning: cutting off the caught sharks’ fins and throwing the sharks back into the water, where they die in agony.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

Lady Russell was extremely sorry that such a measure should have been resorted to at all, wondered, grieved, and feared; and the affront it contained to Anne, in Mrs Clay's being of so much use, while Anne could be of none, was a very sore aggravation.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was one of the many curious fashions which have now died out, that men who were blasé from luxury and high living seemed to find a fresh piquancy in life by descending to the lowest resorts, so that the night-houses and gambling-dens in Covent Garden or the Haymarket often gathered illustrious company under their smoke-blackened ceilings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What share of knowledge these lords had in the laws of their country, and how they came by it, so as to enable them to decide the properties of their fellow-subjects in the last resort?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride’s manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very significant allusion to claim-jumping—which in miners’ parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to—the whole situation became absolutely clear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are single, this month I feel your very best place to meet a romantic interest would be at a resort, and it could be fairly near your home base.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I resorted humbly whither Agnes had commended me; I sought out Nature, never sought in vain; and I admitted to my breast the human interest I had lately shrunk from.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every door was now closed, the passage plan given up, and the first scheme of dancing only in the room they were in resorted to again; and with such good-will on Frank Churchill's part, that the space which a quarter of an hour before had been deemed barely sufficient for five couple, was now endeavoured to be made out quite enough for ten.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)