Miss vs. Madam

Missverb

(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.

Missverb

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

Missverb

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

Missverb

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

Missverb

(transitive) To fail to attend.

Missverb

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

Missverb

(only in present tense) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present. transivity?

Missverb

To fail to help the hand of a player.

Missverb

(sports) To fail to score (a goal).

Missverb

To go wrong; to err.

Missverb

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Missnoun

A failure to hit.

Missnoun

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

Missnoun

An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).

Missnoun

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

Missnoun

A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.

Missnoun

An unmarried woman; a girl.

Missnoun

A kept woman; a mistress.

Missnoun

(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.

Missnoun

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

Missnoun

A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.

Missnoun

A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

Missnoun

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.

Missnoun

The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

Missnoun

Loss; want; felt absence.

Missnoun

Mistake; error; fault.

Missnoun

Harm from mistake.

Missverb

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.

Missverb

To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.

Missverb

To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one.

Missverb

To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

Missverb

To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.

Missverb

To go wrong; to err.

Missverb

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Missnoun

a young woman;

Missnoun

a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

Missverb

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;

Missverb

feel or suffer from the lack of;

Missverb

fail to attend an event or activity;

Missverb

leave undone or leave out;

Missverb

fail to reach or get to;

Missverb

be without;

Missverb

fail to reach;

Missverb

be absent;

Missverb

fail to experience;

Miss

Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific traditionally used only for an unmarried woman (not using another title such as or ). Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of mistress, which was used for all women.

Madamnoun

A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

Madamnoun

The mistress of a household.

Madamnoun

(colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

Madamnoun

(slang) A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.

Madamverb

(transitive) To address as "madam".

Madamnoun

A gentlewoman; - an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; - much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir; often abbreviated ma'am when used as a term of address.

Madamnoun

The woman who is in charge of a household.

Madamnoun

The woman who is in charge of a brothel.

Madamnoun

a woman of refinement;

Madamnoun

a woman who runs a house of prostitution

Madam

Madam (), or madame ( or ), is a polite and formal form of address for women, often contracted to ma'am (pronounced in American English and in British English). The term derives from the French madame (French pronunciation: ​[maˈdam]); in French, ma dame literally means .