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MISS
Miss
(noun) a form of address for an unmarried woman
miss, misfire
(noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille
(noun) a young female; “a young lady of 18”
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
miss, escape
(verb) fail to experience; “Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”
miss
(verb) fail to reach; “The arrow missed the target”
miss
(verb) feel or suffer from the lack of; “He misses his mother”
miss
(verb) fail to reach or get to; “She missed her train”
miss, lose
(verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; “I missed that remark”; “She missed his point”; “We lost part of what he said”
miss
(verb) fail to attend an event or activity; “I missed the concert”; “He missed school for a week”
miss, lack
(verb) be without; “This soup lacks salt”; “There is something missing in my jewelry box!”
miss
(verb) be absent; “The child had been missing for a week”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)
(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
(transitive) To avoid; to escape.
(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
(transitive) To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
(transitive) To fail to attend.
(transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
(transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
(poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
(intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
Usage notes
• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs
Antonyms
• (to fail to hit): hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
• (to feel the absence of): have, feature
Noun
miss (plural misses)
A failure to hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
Etymology 2
Noun
miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
A kept woman; a mistress.
(card games) 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.
Anagrams
• ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims
Etymology
Noun
Miss (plural Misses or Mlles)
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 until the 1800s.
Form of address for a teacher or a waitress.
Usage notes
• When referring to people with the same name, either of two forms may be used: Misses Brown or Miss Browns.
Anagrams
• ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims
Source: Wiktionary
Miss, n.; pl. Misses. Etym: [Contr. fr. mistress.]
1. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
Note: There is diversity of usage in the application of this title to two or more persons of the same name. We may write either the Miss Browns or the Misses Brown.
2. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen. Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses. Cawthorn.
3. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4. [Obs.] Evelyn.
4. (Card Playing)
Definition: 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.
Miss, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Missed; p.pr. & vb.n. Missing.] Etym: [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. *100. See Mis-, pref.]
1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said. When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. Locke.
2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons. She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. Prior. We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. Shak.
3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want. Shak. Neither missed we anything ... Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. 1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21. What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. Milton. To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.
Miss, v. i.
1. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. Waller.
2. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of. Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them. Atterbury.
3. To go wrong; to err. [Obs.] Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss Spenser.
4. To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See Missing, a. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Shak.
Miss, n.
1. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
2. Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.] There will be no great miss of those which are lost. Locke.
3. Mistake; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.
4. Harm from mistake. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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