miss

verb misses · missing · missed

1. ambitransitive, physical To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc. I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.
2. ambitransitive, physical To avoid hitting. The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.
3. transitive To fail to achieve or attain. The company missed all its sales targets.
4. transitive To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc. Joe missed the meeting this morning.
5. transitive To avoid or escape. The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
6. 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. I miss you! Come home soon!
7. transitive To fail to understand. to miss the joke

   Opposite: catch

8. transitive To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook. So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
9. transitive To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). I missed the plane!
10. transitive To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing). The car is missing essential features.
11. slang, transitive To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable. Miss me with that nonsense!
12. said of a card To fail to help the hand of a player. Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
13. To fail to score (a goal). 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.
14. intransitive, obsolete To go wrong; to err. Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?
15. intransitive, obsolete To be absent, deficient, or wanting. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Opposite: hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with

noun misses

1. A failure to physically hit. In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed. After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.
3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give). I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
4. informal Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt. Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
5. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded. 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.
6. 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.
7. obsolete Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
8. obsolete Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
9. obsolete Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.

noun misses · Miss · meess · Meess

1. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative spelling of Miss when used as a term of address or title of respect You may sit here, miss.
2. countable, uncountable An unmarried woman; a girl. 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.
3. countable, uncountable A kept woman; a mistress. courting a Miss
4. countable, uncountable 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.

noun Misses · Mlles

1. 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. Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New-Year's-Eve.
2. With a surname. These are the two young ladies that I wanted you to meet, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson.
3. With a full name. The victim was named as Miss Jane Doe.
4. dated, regional With a first name only. Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea?
5. dated Used alone. Good morning, Miss. May I help you?
6. A form of address for a female teacher or a waitress. Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.
7. 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. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to our lovely new Miss Yorkshire!
8. derogatory, often, sarcastic Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman. Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there.

noun

1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of medium intensity steady state
2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure

proper noun

1. Mississippi, as used in case citations.