miss

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English missen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *meyt- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German vermissen (“to do without, miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).

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1. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.

   I missed the target.

   I tried to kick the ball, but missed.

   • Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

     Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.

   • Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

     Flying bullets now, / To execute his rage, appear too slow; / They miss, or sweep but common souls away.

2. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

   to miss an opportunity

   • John Locke (1632-1705)

     When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.

3. (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.

   I miss you! Come home soon!

   • John Milton (1608-1674)

     What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.

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     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.

4. (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.

   miss the joke

5. (transitive) To fail to attend.

   Joe missed the meeting this morning.

6. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

   I missed the plane!

7. (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!

8. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
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9. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
   • Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)

     Amongst the angels, a whole legion / Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; / What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?

10. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
    • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)

      What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

• (to fail to hit): hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
• (to feel the absence of): have, feature

miss (plural misses)

1. A failure to hit.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
3. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).

   I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

4. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

• swing and a miss

From mistress.

• Miss
• meess, Meess (archaic, eye dialect)

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

1. 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.

2. An unmarried woman; a girl.
   • Cawthorn

     Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, / Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses.

3. A kept woman; a mistress.

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4. (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.

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), Madam (madam, ma'am); (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

• missis, missus
• missy

• SIMS, Sims, isms, sims

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English miss.

miss f (plural misses)

1. beauty queen

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From English miss.

miss f (plural missen, diminutive missje n)

1. A winner of a beauty contest.

   Annelien Coorevits was Miss België in 2007.

   Annelien Coorevits was Miss Belgium in 2007.

2. A beauty.
3. A girl with a high self-esteem.

   Dat is nogal een miss, hoor.

   She has some air.

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• miß (superseded)

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miss

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person singular imperative of messen

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miss

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) imperative of missa

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From Proto-Germanic *missą, *missijaz, *missō (“loss, want”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *meit- (“to change, replace”). Cognate with Old Norse missir, missa (“a loss”).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /miss/

miss n

1. loss; absence

Strong a-stem:

• missan Template:pos v

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English miss.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /mis/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: mis

miss f (plural misses)

1. beauty queen

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miss c

1. A failure to hit.
2. A mistake.
3. (rare) A beauty; a winner of a beauty contest.

   Miss Hawaii gick vidare och vann Miss America-tävlingen

   Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest

• (failure to hit): bom
• (mistake): misstag
• (beauty): skönhetsmiss