What's the difference between shortie and sortie?

Shortie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s business as usual.” The Legend of Shorty will be shown on Film4 in November
  • (2) The lack of humoral immune responsiveness to either of these two antigens shorty after anti-L3T4 treatment responsiveness to either of these two antigens shortly after anti-L3T4 treatment was probably due to clonal depletion.
  • (3) To make The Legend of Shorty , they began with the methamphetamine distribution network in Chicago, well under Chapo’s control, and negotiated their way, perilous step by perilous step to Sinaloa, via Guzmán’s cocaine and meth-packing operation in Tijuana.
  • (4) Where to turn when you are smaller than one of the country's most famous "shorties"?
  • (5) There’s Shortie,” said Taylor, spotting a short-eared owl.
  • (6) The arrest of Guzmán (known as El Chapo, or Shorty) in the Pacific resort city of Mazatlán just before dawn on Saturday punctured the myth of untouchability that had enveloped the capo since his escape from a high-security jail in January 2001 and his rise to the status of world's most wanted trafficker.
  • (7) The Californian electricity market was the subject of scrutiny after the collapse of Enron when regulators produced documents showing that strategies named Fat Boy and Get Shorty were used to try to increase profits from trading power in the western US state,
  • (8) Unless the shorties step into the breach, I give the human race a couple of decades.
  • (9) His film credits included Get Shorty, The Mexican, Zero Dark Thirty and In The Loop .
  • (10) His arrest comes a year after the capture of Mexico’s most notorious drug lord , Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s most powerful drug-smuggling gangs.
  • (11) Homegrown talent Davide Shorty is a songwriter, beat-maker and rapper from Palermo who moved to London a few years ago.
  • (12) Smugger still is the accompanying (and relatively new) Instagram account – an endless stream of conspicuous consumption as Palermo enjoys yet more infinity pools (attentive readers might notice a theme emerging), luxury goods shopping ("I can't think of a better way to start the day in Paris than the ultimate girl's playground #DIOR") and interchangeable small dogs, usually flanked by at least one permatanned, ripped himbo henchman in shorty shorts.
  • (13) Stormzy and Michael need to be the same person.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kanye with, among others, Stormzy, Jammer, Skepta, Shorty, Krept and Konan, Novelist and Fekky.
  • (14) Gandolfini was then cast against type as shy guys in Mr Wonderful (1993) and Angie (1994), but returned to bad ways as an ex-KGB man in Terminal Velocity (1994), as a southern-accented stunt man turned bodyguard in Get Shorty (1995), as a corrupt cop who kills himself in Sidney Lumet 's Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) and a mafia man in The Juror (1996).
  • (15) But at the same period, Waterloo Road (1944) showed him robustly at home in a working-class role, echoing his unpatronisingly drawn lower-deck character, ordinary seaman Shorty Blake, in In Which We Serve.
  • (16) Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant, was convicted of murder in Quebec in 1895.
  • (17) Even the man nicknamed Shorty would have had to crouch as he felt and squelched through the fetid tunnels, the Guardian can testify, having joined Mexican reporters who later explored the escape route.
  • (18) "This song is a love song not for some of us but for all of us and tonight we celebrate the commitment to love by some very beautiful couples," said Latifah, before introducing the rap duo with Mary Lambert and jazz artist Trombone Shorty.
  • (19) Right there in Sinaloa, where Guzman’s mother was found and interviewed by British film-maker Angus McQueen for his movie The Legend of Shorty , and where the army, Guzmán’s bodyguards told McQueen, was paid to turn a blind eye.
  • (20) Like all Mexican dons, he has a nom de narco , and is known as El Chapo (Shorty) – ostensibly to describe his appearance.

Sortie


Definition:

  • (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The alliance said it conducted 66 strike sorties on Tuesday, with many of them in daylight hours.
  • (2) All 18 accidents occurred during single crewmember sorties, for an average rate of 2.1 per million single-seat flying hours (pmfh).
  • (3) You’ve already seen the first sorties: since the separation of powers is the longest-standing of American ideas, the tweeted hostility to a “so-called judge” crosses a line only Richard Nixon ever flirted with.
  • (4) The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said 300 sorties since Saturday had destroyed 49 tanks, nine armoured personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammunition bunkers.
  • (5) 2.09pm BST 65 min: Gibbs has looked a great threat whenever he's made a sortie up front.
  • (6) Moscow has doubled the number of sorties being flown in Syria, with the introduction of 25 long-range bombers flying from Russia.
  • (7) 5.14am BST Tony Abbott's opening sortie is on the carbon tax going up.
  • (8) Preference was estimated by the predominate direction of sorties during random alternation of the sound sources.
  • (9) Dry bulb temperature was measured at six sites throughout seven sorties in F4E aircraft in a study of vertical and lateral cockpit temperature gradients designed to determine the validity of single-point measurements.
  • (10) And then there were his sorties into international diplomacy, namely suggesting that Russia is a militaristic one-party state with a reputation for repressive police tactics.
  • (11) Nato said its aircraft had conducted 154 sorties over Libya on Sunday, including 70 "strike sorties", which it defines as missions to identify and engage targets, but which do not necessarily involve weapons being fired.
  • (12) But Turnbull couldn’t escape domestic political controversy on the opening day of his 10-day sortie.
  • (13) There was speculation that yesterday's attacks could be linked to Norway's military involvement in Nato operations in Afghanistan, where it has 500 soldiers, or Libya, where Norwegian jet fighters are flying sorties.
  • (14) After North Korea last tested a nuclear device in 2013, Washington sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers on a sortie over South Korea in a show of force.
  • (15) Models capable of predicting cockpit thermal stress and aircrew thermal strain given ambient temperature and sortie time have been constructed.
  • (16) The effectiveness of head or neck cooling in reducing head sweating and increasing subject comfort when used in conjunction with a liquid-conditioned vest during simulated sorties in the European Fighter Aircraft was investigated.
  • (17) 8.02pm BST 1 min: Crystal Palace attempt an early sortie into Liverpool territory with a foray up the left touchline.
  • (18) The French have come in hard and fast, with fighter jets flying sorties from southern France over Algerian airspace, helicopters coming in from bases in Burkina Faso , and special forces and Legionnaires from Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina, and France.
  • (19) The raising of the threat level followed a decision by the Canadian government to take part in the allied air campaign against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and deployed two warplanes and a refueller aircraft to flight sorties from Kuwait.
  • (20) This looming sortie into northern Iraq is different from the catastrophic adventurism of the 2003 invasion.

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