Miss
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
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.
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.
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
To go wrong; to err.
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
Loss; want; felt absence.
Mistake; error; fault.
Harm from mistake.
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Miss Quotations
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
Steve Jobs
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
Barack Obama
Miss Translations
miss in Dutch is missen, mislopen, misgrijpen
miss in French is rater, manquons, manquent, manquer, manquez
Miss in Italian is signorina
miss in Italian is perdere
miss in Latin is requiro
miss in Portuguese is falta
miss in Swedish is sakna
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