MIS
(US, military) Initialism of Military Intelligence Service (United States).
(archaeology) Initialism of Marine isotope stage, a timescale.
MIS
Initialism of management information system.
Initialism of medium invert sugar.
Initialism of minimally invasive surgery.
Initialism of mortgage interest statement.
• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MSI, SIM, Sim, ism, sim
MIs
plural of MI
• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MSI, SIM, Sim, ism, sim
Source: Wiktionary
Mis-. Etym: [In words of Teutonic origin, fr. AS. mis-; akin to D. mis-, G. miss-, OHG. missa-, missi-, Icel. & Dan. mis-, Sw. miss-, Goth. missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of G. meiden to shun, OHG. midan, AS. mi (Miss to fail of). In words from the French, fr. OF. mes-, F. mé-, mes-, fr. L. minus less (see Minus). In present usage these two prefixes are commonly confounded.]
Definition: A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.
Mis, a. & adv. Etym: [See Amiss.]
Definition: Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
