Etimology
From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).
verb
miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)
(transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
(transitive) To avoid; to escape.
(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
(transitive) To fail to understand;
(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
(transitive) To fail to attend.
(transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
(transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
(transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
(poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
(intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
Examples
I missed the target.
I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.
Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
to miss an opportunity
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
I miss you! Come home soon!
[…] what by me thou haſt loſt thou leaſt ſhalt miſs.
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.
miss the joke
So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
Joe missed the meeting this morning.
I missed the plane!
The car is missing essential features.
Miss me with that nonsense!
Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.
Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Related words
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "to fail to hit"): hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
(antonym(s) of "to feel the absence of"): have, feature
Etimology
From Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).
noun
miss (plural misses)
A failure to hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
(obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
(obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
(obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
Examples
"I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss."
I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.
Etimology
From mistress.
noun
miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
A kept woman; a mistress.
(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.
Examples
You may sit here, miss.
You may sit here, Miss Jones.
While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses.
courting a Miss
Related words
coordinate terms
(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)
related terms
missis, missus
missy