miss

noun

A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.

(informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.

A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.

An unmarried woman; a girl.

A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.

A kept woman; a mistress.

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

(snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.

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

A failure to physically hit.

(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.

A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

With a surname.

With a full name.

A form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.

Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, or certain other types of contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents, or the category of contest.

(often disparaging or sarcastic) Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman.

(law) Mississippi, as used in case citations.

Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure.

Initialism of medium intensity steady state.

(obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.

(obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.

(obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.

(dated or regional) With a first name only.

(dated) Used alone.

verb

(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

(transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.

(ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.

(ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.

(transitive) To avoid or escape.

(transitive) To fail to understand.

(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

(transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

(transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).

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

(transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.

(poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.

(intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.

(intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Synonyms for miss

mademoisellen mesdames

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