Miss vs. Misses
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.
Missesnoun
plural of miss
Missesnoun
alternative spelling of missus(Mrs)
