miss
see also: Miss
Pronunciation
Miss
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: Miss
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɪs/
miss (misses, present participle missing; past and past participle missed)
- (ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
- I missed the target.
- I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.
- Flying bullets now,
To execute his rage, appear too slow;
They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
- Flying bullets now,
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- to miss an opportunity
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗:
- When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
- (transitive) To avoid; to escape.
- The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- I miss you! Come home soon!
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, [https://archive.org/stream/paradiseregaindp00milt_0#page/{
}/mode/1up page 58]: - {...}} what by me thou haſt loſt thou leaſt ſhalt miſs.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620 ↗:
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
- (transitive) To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- miss the joke
- (transitive) To fail to attend.
- Joe missed the meeting this morning.
- (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- I missed the plane!
- (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- The car is missing essential features.
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
- Amongst the angels, a whole legion / Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; / What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
- (to fail to hit) hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
- (to feel the absence of) have, feature
- French: manquer, rater
- German: verfehlen
- Italian: mancare
- Portuguese: falhar, errar
- Russian: не попа́сть
- Spanish: fallar, errar, marrar
- French: languir, manquer (tu me manques = I miss you), regretter
- German: vermissen, sich sehnen
- Italian: mancare
- Portuguese: sentir falta de, sentir saudade
- Russian: недостава́ть
- Spanish: echar de menos, extrañar (Latin America)
- Portuguese: não perceber, não compreender
- Russian: не поня́ть
- Spanish: no entender
- French: manquer, rater
- German: verpassen
- Italian: mancare
- Portuguese: faltar
- Russian: пропусти́ть
- Spanish: faltar
miss (plural misses)
- A failure to hit.
- A failure to obtain or accomplish.
- An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
- I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- French: raté
- German: Fehlschuss
- Russian: про́мах
- Spanish: fallo
- Russian: неуда́ча
- Russian: про́пуск
miss
- A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
- You may sit here, miss.
- You may sit here, Miss Jones.
- 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.
- French: mademoiselle, madame (used now by administration in France instead of mademoiselle)
- German: Fräulein
- Italian: signorina
- Portuguese: senhorita
- Russian: мисс
- Spanish: señorita
Miss
Pronunciation Noun
miss (plural Misses)
- 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.
- Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.
- French: mademoiselle (Mlle) (Not used anymore in official writing / by administration in France), madame (Mme) (Most modern usage)
- German: Fräulein (Frl.)
- Italian: signorina (Sig.na)
- Portuguese: senhorita (Srta.)
- Russian: ба́рышня
- Spanish: señorita (Srta)
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