MISS
\mˈɪs], \mˈɪs], \m_ˈɪ_s]\
Definitions of MISS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
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fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
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be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
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fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
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fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"
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fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
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fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
By Princeton University
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leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
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fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
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be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
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fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
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fail to hit the intended target
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fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"
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fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
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A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
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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.
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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.
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To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
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To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
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To go wrong; to err.
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To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
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Loss; want; felt absence.
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Mistake; error; fault.
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Harm from mistake.
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To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.
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To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.
By Oddity Software
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
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A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
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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.
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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.
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To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
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To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
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To go wrong; to err.
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To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
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Loss; want; felt absence.
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Mistake; error; fault.
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Harm from mistake.
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To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.
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To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.
By Noah Webster.
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To fail to hit, etc.; omit or pass by; do without; feel the want of.
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To fly wide of the mark.
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A young unmarried woman; failure to hit, reach, etc.; Miss, a title of an unmarried woman.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A title of address of an unmarried female: a young woman or girl:-pl. MISSES.
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To fail to hit, reach, find, or keep: to omit: to fail to have: to discover the absence of: to feel the want of.
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To fail to hit or obtain.
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A deviation from the mark.
By Daniel Lyons
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A failure.
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An unmarried woman or girl; title of an unmarried woman.
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To fail to hit, find, or keep; to omit; feel the want of.
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To fail to hit; to fail.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To fail of; come short of.
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To feel the loss or absence of.
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To fail of attainment; go wrong.
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A girl or an unmarried woman.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Failure to hit or reach; loss; want.
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To fail to hit, reach, find, see, &c.; to omit; to pass by; logo without; to feel the want of.
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To fail to hit; to deviate from the true direction.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A title of address conferred on young unmarried women, prefixed to the name, as Miss Brown, or Miss Jane Brown; a young girl; a kept mistress.
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To fail in hitting or reaching, as a mark; to fail in obtaining, finding, or keeping; to discover something to be wanting; to perceive the want of; to mistake; to omit; to be wanting.
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Loss; want; mistake.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
