Miss vs. Mess

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.

Messnoun

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.

Messnoun

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

Messnoun

(euphemistic) Excrement.

Messnoun

(figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Messnoun

(obsolete) Mass; a church service.

Messnoun

(archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.

Messnoun

A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

Messnoun

A set of four from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

Messnoun

(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Messverb

(transitive) To make a mess of.

Messverb

(transitive) To throw into confusion.

Messverb

(intransitive) To interfere.

Messverb

screw around with, to bother, to be annoying with

Messverb

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.

Messverb

(intransitive) To belong to a mess.

Messverb

(intransitive) To eat (with others).

Messverb

(transitive) To supply with a mess.

Messnoun

Mass; church service.

Messnoun

A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

Messnoun

A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

Messnoun

A set of four; - from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

Messnoun

The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Messnoun

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

Messverb

To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

Messverb

To supply with a mess.

Messverb

To make a mess{5} of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up.

Messnoun

a state of confusion and disorderliness;

Messnoun

informal terms for a difficult situation;

Messnoun

soft semiliquid food;

Messnoun

a meal eaten by service personnel

Messnoun

a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

Messnoun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

Messverb

eat in a mess hall

Messverb

make a mess of or create disorder in;

Mess

The mess (also called a mess deck aboard ships) is an area where military personnel socialize, eat, and (in some cases) live. The term is also used to indicate the groups of military personnel who belong to separate messes, such as the Officers' mess, the CPOs' mess, and the Enlisted mess.