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Definition miss

Etymology 1

From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), Proto-Germanic *missijan? (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyt- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German vermissen (“to do without, 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)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
2. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
3. (transitive) To avoid; to escape.
4. (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
5. (transitive) To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
6. (transitive) To fail to attend.
7. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
8. (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
9. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
10. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
11. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
12. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Noun

miss (plural misses)

1. A failure to hit.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
3. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
4. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

Etymology 2

From mistress.

Noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

1. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
2. An unmarried woman; a girl.
3. A kept woman; a mistress.
4. (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.

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