miss

Annelien Coorevits was Miss België in 2007.
Annelien Coorevits was Miss Belgium in 2007.

Dat is nogal een miss, hoor.

nl-noun

miss f (plural missen, diminutive missje n)

missen (plural)
missje (diminutive neuter)


miss

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of misschien (“maybe”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


miss

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.

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

Flying bullets now,
 To execute his rage, appear too slow;
 They miss, or sweep but common souls away.

1666, Edmund Waller, "Instructions to a Painter:

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

The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.

(ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.

The company missed all its sales targets.

When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

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

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

The car just missed hitting a passer-by.

We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.

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.

[…] what by me thou haſt loſt thou leaſt ſhalt miſs.

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 58:

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.

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

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

to miss the joke

So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.

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

I missed the plane!

"Is Polly still here?" — "No, sorry, you've just missed her. She left a couple of minutes ago."

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

The car is missing essential features.

This jigsaw is missing several pieces.

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

Miss me with that nonsense!

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

Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!

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

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.

2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:

Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2:

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

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

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

en-verb

miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)

misses (present singular third-person)
missing (participle present)
missed (participle past)
missed (past)

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

desc

→ Kashubian: zmisowac (Canada, United States)

ampua ohi

miss by shooting; use other verbs for missing with other actions

mis

to feel the absence of someone or something; to feel the want or need of

huomata (in the negative, en huomaa lit. 'I do not notice')

elsiklik/átsiklik …… fölött (a figyelme)

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 and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).
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”).

cog

a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning


miss

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."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76:

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.

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

I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

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

Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.

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

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.

1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems:

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

(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.

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

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

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


miss

You may sit here, miss.

You may sit here, Miss Jones.

A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.

Here's my report, miss.

A term of address by a student for a female teacher.

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.

1771, James Cawthorn, Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Cawthorn, Late Master of Tunbridge School:

courting a Miss

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

(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.

en-noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

misses (plural)
Miss (alternative)
meess (alternative)
Meess (alternative)

madame

used now by administration in France instead of mademoiselle


miss

second-person singular imperative of mess


miss

miss (nominative singular)
miss (nominative plural)
miss (accusative singular)
miss (accusative plural)
misses (genitive singular)
missa (genitive plural)
misse (dative singular)
missum (dative plural)
mis (alternative)

Middle English: mis, mys, misse, mysse (merged with Old Norse missir, missa)

English: miss

Scots: mis, miss

From Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss, want”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, replace”). Cognate with Old Norse missir, missa (“loss”).


miss

Miss, beauty queen (winner in a female beauty contest)

es-noun

miss f (plural misses, masculine míster, masculine plural místeres)

misses (plural)
míster (masculine)
místeres (masculine plural)


miss

Var det en träff eller en miss?

Jag gjorde en miss

en rejäl miss

miss (indefinite nominative singular)
miss (genitive indefinite singular)
missen (definite nominative singular)
missens (definite genitive singular)
missar (indefinite nominative plural)
missars (genitive indefinite plural)
missarna (definite nominative plural)
missarnas (definite genitive plural)


miss

Miss ((title for an) unmarried woman (in English-speaking countries))

Miss Hawaii gick vidare till att vinna Miss America-tävlingen

Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest

Jag har sett miss Grekland. Jag har sett miss Kina. Nästan alla världens vackra misser har jag mött. Och jag tyckte alla, sköna var och fina. Men när jag kom hem till Värmland mötte jag en Värmlandsjänta, och hon är för mig det allra sötaste bland sött. Lilla söta fröken Fräken ifrån Fryken blev miss Värmland nu i år. Alla Värmlandspulsar slår när hon genom staden går. Lilla söta fröken Fräken ifrån Fryken, hon är blond som ängens råg. Vackrast utav alla flickorna jag såg.

1964, Thore Skogman (lyrics and music), “Fröken Fräken [Miss Freckle]”performed by Sven-Ingvars:

I have seen Miss Greece. I have seen Miss China. I have met almost every beautiful Miss in the world [almost all the world's beautiful Misses have I met]. And I thought all of them were beautiful and pretty. But when I came home to Värmland, I met a Värmland gal, and she is to me the very cutest among cute. Cute little Miss Freckle from Fryken became Miss Värmland [now] this year. All the Värmland pulses beat when she walks through the city. Cute little Miss Freckle from Fryken, she is blonde like the rye of the meadow. The most beautiful of all the girls I saw.

a Miss ((title for a) female participant in or winner of a beauty pageant or beauty contest)

miss (indefinite nominative singular)
miss (genitive indefinite singular)
missen (definite nominative singular)
missens (definite genitive singular)
misser (indefinite nominative plural)
missers (genitive indefinite plural)
misserna (definite nominative plural)
missernas (definite genitive plural)