miss

I missed the target.

I tried to kick the ball, but 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:

(transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.

to miss an opportunity

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.

The car just missed hitting a passer-by.

I miss you! Come home soon!

[…] 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.

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.

Joe missed the meeting this morning.

I missed the plane!

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

The car is missing essential features.

(transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

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)

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 *meytH- (“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”).


miss

"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:

I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

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

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.

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

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

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

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”).


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)

madame

used now by administration in France instead of mademoiselle