MISS Word Analysis

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

(ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

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

(transitive) To avoid or escape.

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

(transitive) To fail to understand.

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

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

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

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

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

(sports) To fail to score (a goal).

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

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

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).

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

(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.

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

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

An unmarried woman; a girl.

A kept woman; a mistress.

(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.