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Miss

//mɪs// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
Mississippi, as used in case citations.

Noun

1
A failure to physically hit.
"In eight shots at the target he had six misses."
2
A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used. countable, uncountable
"You may sit here, miss."
3
A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.
"Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New-Year's-Eve."
4
Initialism of medium intensity steady state. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
5
a form of address for an unmarried woman wordnet

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6
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
"After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss."
7
A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name. countable, uncountable
"Here's my report, Miss Smith."
8
A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.; With a surname.
"These are the two young ladies that I wanted you to meet, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson."
9
Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
10
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.) wordnet
11
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
"I think I’ll give the meeting a miss."
12
An unmarried woman; a girl. countable, uncountable
"While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses."
13
A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.; With a full name.
"The victim was named as Miss Jane Doe."
14
a young female wordnet
15
Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt. informal
"Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United."
16
A kept woman; a mistress. countable, uncountable
"courting a Miss"
17
A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.; With a first name only. dated, regional
"Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea?"
18
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
"Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables."
19
In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player. countable, uncountable
20
A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.; Used alone. dated
"Good morning, Miss. May I help you?"
21
A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
22
A form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.
"Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again."
23
Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin. obsolete
24
Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, or certain other types of contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents, or the category of contest.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to our lovely new Miss Yorkshire!"
25
Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident. obsolete
26
Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman. derogatory, often, sarcastic
"Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there."
27
Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss. obsolete

Verb

1
To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc. ambitransitive, physical
"I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target."
2
leave undone or leave out wordnet
3
To avoid hitting. ambitransitive, physical
"The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road."
4
fail to experience wordnet
5
To fail to achieve or attain. transitive
"The company missed all its sales targets."

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6
fail to reach wordnet
7
To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc. transitive
"Joe missed the meeting this morning."
8
feel or suffer from the lack of wordnet
9
To avoid or escape. transitive
"The car just missed hitting a passer-by."
10
fail to reach or get to wordnet
11
To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something. transitive
"I miss you! Come home soon!"
12
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind wordnet
13
To fail to understand. transitive
"to miss the joke"
14
fail to attend an event or activity wordnet
15
To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook. transitive
"So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything."
16
be without wordnet
17
To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). transitive
"I missed the plane!"
18
be absent wordnet
19
To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing). transitive
"The car is missing essential features."
20
To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable. slang, transitive
"Miss me with that nonsense!"
21
To fail to help the hand of a player.
"Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!"
22
To fail to score (a goal).
"Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties."
23
To go wrong; to err. intransitive, obsolete
"Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?"
24
To be absent, deficient, or wanting. intransitive, obsolete
"What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”). Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From mistress.

Etymology 4

From mistress.

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