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miss (mis)

transitive verb

  1. to fail to hit or land on (something aimed at)
  2. to fail to meet, reach, attain, catch, accomplish, see, hear, perceive, understand, etc.
  3. to overlook; let (an opportunity, etc.) go by
  4. to escape; avoid he just missed being struck
  5. to fail or forget to do, keep, have, be present at, etc. to miss an appointment
  6. to notice the absence or loss of to suddenly miss one's wallet
  7. to feel or regret the absence or loss of; want to miss one's friends
  8. to be without; lack: now used only in present participle this book is missing a page

Etymology: ME missen < OE missan, akin to Ger missen < IE base *meit(h)-, to change, exchange > L mutare, to change

intransitive verb

  1. to fail to hit something aimed at; go wide of the mark
  2. to fail to be successful
  3. to misfire, as an engine
  4. Archaic to fail to obtain, receive, etc.: with of or in

noun

a failure to hit, meet, obtain, see, etc.
miss Idioms

a miss is as good as a mile

missing by a narrow margin has the same practical effect as missing by a wide one

miss one's guess

to fail to guess or predict accurately
miss2 definition

miss (mis)

noun pl. misses miss′es

    1. a title used in speaking to or of an unmarried woman or girl and placed before the name Miss Smith, the Misses Smith
    2. a title used in speaking to an unmarried woman or girl but used without the name
    3. ☆ a title given to a young woman winning a particular beauty contest or promoting a particular product Miss Ohio, Miss Cotton
  1. a young, unmarried woman or girl
  2. a series of sizes in clothing for women and girls of average proportions coats in misses' sizes

Etymology: contr. of mistress

Miss definition

Miss

Mississippi

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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