miss
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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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 lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).
Noun 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: misses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: missing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: missed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: missed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: misses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
physical
examples: I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.
I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
She tried to grab hold of the end of the rope, but she 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.
gloss: To avoid hitting.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
physical
examples: The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.
gloss: To fail to achieve or attain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The company missed all its sales targets.
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
gloss: To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Joe missed the meeting this morning.
I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but I missed it this year.
I'm starving! I missed breakfast this morning.
I only left the queue for a moment and now I've missed my turn.
This offer is too good to miss.
to miss an opportunity, to miss a chance
gloss: To avoid or escape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I miss you! Come home soon!
I miss going for walks along the beach.
I'm not going to the party, but I don't think I'll be missed.
I had left my wallet at home, but I only missed it when I got to the metro.
[…] 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.
We did it like that and now we do it like this / We did it like that and now we do it like this / Go inside your mind and find a time that you miss / And just think about the steel in your fist
gloss: To fail to understand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to miss the joke
gloss: To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
gloss: To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I missed the plane!
"Is Polly still here?" — "No, sorry, you've just missed her. She left a couple of minutes ago."
And we can't afford to miss the train back, as the next one is at 0704 tomorrow...
gloss: To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The car is missing essential features.
This jigsaw is missing several pieces.
gloss: To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Miss me with that nonsense!
gloss: To fail to help the hand of a player.
pos: verb
examples: Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
gloss: To fail to score (a goal).
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To go wrong; to err.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?
gloss: To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
gloss: A failure to physically hit.
pos: noun
examples: In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
"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."
gloss: A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
pos: noun
examples: After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.
Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.
Jones put the penalty shot over the bar — what a terrible miss.
gloss: An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
pos: noun
examples: I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
gloss: Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
gloss: The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Antonyms: hit
strike
impinge on
run into
collide with
Derived words: amiss
blink-and-you'll-miss-it
blink-and-you-miss-it
hit-and-miss
hit-or-miss
hit-or-miss transform
I miss you
I never miss
miss a beat
missable
miss a cog
miss a trick
miss fire
misfire
missing
miss-meal colic
miss off
miss oneself
miss one's guess
miss one's tip
miss out
miss someone's point
miss stays
miss the boat
miss the bus
miss the forest for the trees
miss the mark
miss the memo
miss the point
miss the wood for the trees
miss the woods for the trees
not know what one is missing
you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
you miss 100% of the shots you don't take
you never miss the water till the well runs dry
you never miss the water until the well runs dry
airmiss
a miss is as good as a mile
earnings miss
give something a miss
missout
near miss
swing and a miss
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: избягвам
roman: izbjagvam
lang: Czech
word: vyhnout se
lang: Dutch
word: ontwijken
lang: Dutch
word: missen
lang: Finnish
word: välttää
lang: Hungarian
word: elkerül
lang: Hungarian
word: megúszik
lang: Portuguese
word: evitar
lang: Romanian
word: evita
lang: Russian
word: избежа́ть
roman: izbežátʹ
lang: Russian
word: избега́ть
roman: izbegátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: evitar
lang: Spanish
word: evadir
lang: Swedish
word: undvika
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qaçırmaq
lang: Catalan
word: perdre
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 錯過 /错过
roman: co³ gwo³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 錯過 /错过
roman: cuòguò
lang: Czech
word: zmeškat
lang: Dutch
word: missen
lang: Finnish
word: myöhästyä
lang: Finnish
word: ei ehtiä
lang: Finnish
word: missata
lang: French
word: rater
lang: German
word: verpassen
lang: Greek
word: χάνω
roman: cháno
lang: Hebrew
word: פספס
roman: fisfés
lang: Hebrew
word: הֶחְמִיץ
roman: heḥmítz
lang: Hungarian
word: lekésik
lang: Hunsrik
word: ferbasse
lang: Italian
word: perdere
lang: Central Kurdish
word: لەدەسچون
roman: ledesçun
lang: Polish
word: spóźniać się
lang: Polish
word: spóźnić się
lang: Portuguese
word: perder
lang: Romanian
word: rata
lang: Romanian
word: pierde
lang: Russian
word: упусти́ть
roman: upustítʹ
lang: Russian
word: опозда́ть
roman: opozdátʹ
lang: Northern Sami
word: maŋŋonit
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: caill
lang: Slovak
word: zmeškať
lang: Slovene
word: zamuditi
lang: Spanish
word: perder
lang: Swedish
word: missa
lang: Turkish
word: kaçırmak
lang: Vietnamese
word: trễ