miss
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- États-Unis//mɪs//
To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
verbe
- 1
To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
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.
- 2
To avoid hitting.
The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.
- 3
To fail to achieve or attain.
The company missed all its sales targets.
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
- 4
To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
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.
- 5
To avoid or escape.
The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.
- 6
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.
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.
- 7
To fail to understand.
to miss the joke
- 8
To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
- 9
To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
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...
- 10
To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
The car is missing essential features.
This jigsaw is missing several pieces.
- 11
argotTo spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
Miss me with that nonsense!
- 12
To fail to help the hand of a player.
Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
- 13
To fail to score (a goal).
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.
- 14
obsolèteTo go wrong; to err.
Emongst the Angels, a whole legione / Of wicked Sprights did fall from happy blis; / What wonder then, if one of women all did mis?
- 15
obsolèteTo be absent, deficient, or wanting.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Étymologie
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”).
nom
- 1
A failure to physically hit.
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."
- 2
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
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.
- 3
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
- 4
familierSomeone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
- 5
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
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.
- 6
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.
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obsolèteError, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
- 8
obsolèteHurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
- 9
obsolèteLoss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
nom
- 1
An unmarried woman; a girl.
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.
- 2
A kept woman; a mistress.
courting a Miss
- 3
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.
- 4
Variante de Miss when used as a term of address or title of respectAlternative spelling of Miss when used as a term of address or title of respect.
You may sit here, miss.
The dog ate my homework, miss.
Étymologie
From mistress.
Formes
- pluriel
- misses
- passé
- missed
- participe passé
- missed
- participe présent
- missing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- misses