| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. With a sense of loss.[Websters]
2. In a lacking manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a budding manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a damaging or disadvantaged manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a cracking manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a balking manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a bungled or botched manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a baffling or confounding manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In an absent or nonexistent manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Seldom used adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective missing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Missing) | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb miss.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (miss) | 1. Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point".[Wordnet]. 2. Feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother".[Wordnet]. 3. Fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week".[Wordnet]. 4. Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten".[Wordnet]. 5. Fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train".[Wordnet]. 6. Be without; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!".[Wordnet]. 7. Fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target".[Wordnet]. 8. Be absent; "The child had been missing for a week".[Wordnet]. 9. Fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane".[Wordnet]. 10. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.[Websters]. 11. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.[Websters]. 12. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.[Websters]. 13. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.[Websters]. 14. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.[Websters]. 15. To go wrong; to err.[Websters]. 16. To be absent, deficient, or wanting.[Websters]. 17. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: missing, missed, misses, misser, missers, missingly and missedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MISSINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
| Note: Missingly \Miss"ing*ly\, adverb. With sense of loss. [obsolete]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: miss
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh. Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The title of a young woman or girl; as little masters and misses.. | 2: [Noun] A kept mistress; a prostitute retained; a concubine.. | 3: [Verb] To fail in aim; to fail of reaching the object; not to hit; as, to miss the mark; to miss the object intended.. | 4: [Verb] To fail of finding the right way; to err in attempting to find; as, to miss the way or the road.. | 5: [Verb] To fail of obtaining. Orgalus feared nothing but to miss Parthenia.. | 6: [Verb] To learn or discover that something is wanting, or not where it was supposed to be; as, to miss one's snuff-box; I missed the first volume of Livy. Neither missed we any thing--. Nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. 1 Sam.25.. | 7: [Verb] To be without; as, we cannot miss him.. | 8: [Verb] To omit; to pass by; to go without; to fail to have; as, to miss a meal of victuals. She would never miss one day A walk so fine, a sight so gay.. | 9: [Verb] To perceive the want of. What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss, He who has a firm sincere friend, may want all the rest without missing them.. | 10: [Verb] To fail of seeing or finding.. | 11: [Verb] To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away.. | 12: [Verb] Not to succeed; to fail. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss--. | 13: [Verb] To fail; to miscarry, as by accident. The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor missed.. | 14: [Verb] To fail to obtain, learn or find; with of. On the least reflection, we can miss of them.. | 15: [Verb] To fail; to mistake.. | 16: [Noun] Loss; want. There will be no great miss of those which are lost.. | 17: [Noun] Mistake; error. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. [Little used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | 1: In a categorical verification problem, a no-event forecast that is associated with an event observed. (references) | 2: Medical Information Security Service. (references) | |
| Aerospace | Mission. (references) | ||
| Geography | Miss is geographically located in Papua New Guinea. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 4.433333 degrees South latitude and 144.816667 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Health | To inject a drug. (references) | ||
| Information | A relevant item of the collection not to be found by the search procedure. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Military | 1: Missing. (references) | 2: Mississippi. (references) | |
| Slang in 1811 | MISS. A miss or kept mistress; a harlot. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Technology | Multiband Infrared Source Solution. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Miss is a title, typically used for an unmarried woman. It is a contraction of mistress, originating during the Victorian era. Its counterpart, Mrs., was used for married women. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] (transitive) To fail to attend. Joe missed the meeting this morning. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] (transitive) To fail to board (a means of transportation). I missed the plane!. (references) | 3: [Etymology 1] (transitive) To fail to hit. I missed the target. (references) | 4: [Etymology 1] (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception. miss the joke I think I'll give the meeting a miss. (references) | 5: [Etymology 1] (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret. I miss you!. (references) | 6: [Etymology 1] A failure to hit. (references) | 7: [Etymology 1] A failure to obtain or accomplish. (references) | 8: [Etymology 1] An act of avoidance. I think I'll give the meeting a miss. (references) | 9: [Etymology 2] A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. You may sit here, miss. You may sit here, Miss Jones. (references) | 10: [Etymology 2] An unmarried woman; a girl. (references) | 11: [Noun] Form of address for a teacher Excuse me Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again. (references) | 12: [Noun] Form of address for an unmarried woman. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: miss
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| American Junior Miss | American Junior Miss is a winner of the America's Junior Miss scholarship program for girls. (references) | ||
| America's Junior Miss | America's Junior Miss is a national scholarship program of 48 years created to provide young high school seniors with the opportunity and support needed to succeed before, during, and after attending college. In its existence, over 700,000 young ladies participated in competitions spanning the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, among them were over 2000 lucky contestants who reached the national finals held in the program's birthplace of Mobile, Alabama. (references) | ||
| Hit or Miss | Hit or Miss is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the unique solitaire card games because the player only deals the cards one at a time. (references) | ||
| Little Miss Muffet | Little Miss Muffet is a nursery rhyme. Like most such rhymes, its origins are unclear. Some claim it was written by Dr. Thomas Muffet, a 16th century English entomologist, for his step-daughters; others claim it refers to Mary, Queen of Scots, who was said to have been frightened by John Knox, a Scottish religious reformer in the 16th century. The latter explanation is doubted by most literary scholars, who note that stories linking folk tales or songs to political events are a common urban legend. (references) | ||
| Miss Adventure | Miss Adventure, 30, is a fictional character whose adventures (and misadventures) appear in the American supermarket tabloid the Weekly World News. (references) | ||
| Miss America | The Miss America pageant (not to be confused with the similar Miss USA pageant) is a long-standing competition which awards prizes to young female contestants from the states of the United States of America. The first prize winner of the national pageant is awarded the title of "Miss America" for one year. (references) | ||
| Miss America (DC Comics) | Miss America is a DC Comics superhero. She was first created by Quality Comics in Military Comics #1 (1941), and was carried over to DC Comics when they purchased Quality in the 1950s. (references) | ||
| Miss America (Marvel Comics) | 200pxMiss America is a Golden Age superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. She debuted in Marvel Mystery Comics #49 (Nov. 1943), and was created by Otto Binder and Al Gabriele for Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel. (references) | ||
| Miss Arroyo | Miss Arroyo is the pseudonym of one of the porn stars who tested positive for HIV in March 2004 (along with Jessica Dee and Lara Roxxx). The three actresses are suspected to have contracted the virus while the filming unprotected sex scenes with fellow porn star Darren James in Brazil. (references) | ||
| Miss Australia | Miss Australia is the title for the winner of the Miss Australia beauty contest, which was run for the Spastic Society since 1908 and until 2000, when the last Miss Australia was called. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: miss
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cache miss | Computing | Cache miss | |
| MISS BROWN | Slang in 1811 | BROWN MADAM, or MISS BROWN. The monosyllable. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Miss Emma | Health | Morphine. (references) | |
| Miss Hisp. | Library Science | Missionalia Hispánica. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas. Instituto Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo. Madrid, Spain. (references) | |
| Miss is as Good as a Mile | Literature | (A). A failure is a failure be it ever so little, and is no more be it ever so great; a narrow escape is an escape, and a more easy one is no more. If I miss the train by one minute, I miss it as much as if it had run a mile from the station; and if I escape an evil by the skin of my teeth, I escape, and he who escapes it easily does no more. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| MISS LAYCOCK | Slang in 1811 | MISS LAYCOCK. The monosyllable. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Miss ratio | Information | The ratio of the number of non-relevant items recovered by a retrieval system to the total number of relevant items in a file. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Miss thang | Slang | 1: Noun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: Praise. Context: Used only for a woman or girl. Social Source: Residents of New York City's South Bronx. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| 2: Noun or adjective. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: A person who is exemplifies some positive trait to its fullest extent. Context: Directed to either an especially sassy and "together" female friend or a drag queen. Social Source: Male, homosexuals, ages 17-20. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |||
| Miss Val Hist R. | Library Science | Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Mississippi Valley Historical Association. Lincoln, Neb. (references) | |
| Near miss | Military | Any circumstances in flight when the degree of separation between two aircraft might constitute a hazardous situation. Also called airmiss. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: miss
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| MISS | English | Monolithic integrated smart sensor | N/A | |
| Miss. | English | Mississippi | Geography | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
