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miss

UK/mɪs/ US/ˈmɪz/ very common informal slang
verb (9) noun (2)

verb

1.

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

  • “I missed that remark”
  • “She missed his point”
  • “We lost part of what he said”
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2.

feel or suffer from the lack of

  • “He misses his mother”
3.

fail to attend an event or activity

  • “I missed the concert”
  • “He missed school for a week”
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4.

leave undone or leave out

  • “How could I miss that typo?”
  • “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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5.

fail to reach or get to

  • “She missed her train”
6.

be without

  • “This soup lacks salt”
  • “There is something missing in my jewellery box!”
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7.

fail to reach

  • “The arrow missed the target”
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8.

be absent

  • “The child had been missing for a week”
9.

fail to experience

  • “Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”
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noun

1.

a young woman

  • “a young lady of 18”
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2.

a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

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Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • a miss is as good as a mile
  • earnings miss
  • give something a miss
  • hit-or-miss transform
  • I miss you
  • I never miss
  • junior miss
  • miss a beat
  • miss a cog
  • miss a trick
  • Miss Ann
  • Miss Emma

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