miss

Pronunciation: /mɪs/

The English word “miss” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
To avoid hitting.
To fail to achieve or attain.
To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
To avoid or escape.
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.
To fail to understand.
To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
To fail to help the hand of a player.
To fail to score (a goal).
To go wrong; to err.
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

noun

A failure to physically hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

Etymology

Verb 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 *meyth₂- (“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…

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