Crossword clues for miss
miss
- Word before any U.S. state
- Swing without connecting
- Pageant contestant
- Not catch
- Near or Ole
- Muffet's title
- Muffet, for one
- Long to be with
- Lonelyhearts' title
- Junior ___
- It's not a hit
- Hit opposite
- Go off target
- Former Mrs
- Feel nostalgia for
- Feel homesick for
- Fail to meet — girl
- Fail to meet
- Daisy, for one
- Be too late for
- Allow to slip by
- Air ball, say
- "___ Congeniality" (Sandra Bullock movie)
- ____ Piggy
- ___ by a mile
- Wrong guess in Battleship
- Word on a model's sash
- What a white peg signifies in Battleship
- Unsuccessful swing
- Unmarried girl
- Title that can precede the starts of the four longest Across answers
- Title for an unmarried woman
- Title for America?
- Title for a pageant winner?
- Ted Nugent "Little ___ Dangerous"
- Suffer the absence of
- Strindberg's "_____ Julie"
- Stones "___ You"
- Spin Doctors "Little ___ Can't Be Wrong"
- Spider victim, Little ... Muffet
- Slapdash, hit or ...
- Show bad aim
- Shoot past, e.g
- Shoot an air ball, say
- Shoot an air ball, e.g
- Shoot an air ball
- She's not yet married
- Sash's first word?
- Sash word
- Reply to some Battleship guesses
- Reply from a Battleships opponent
- Pre-marital title
- Possible swing result
- Opposite of a make
- One way to waste ammo
- Not notice
- Not hit the target
- Not hit
- Not even get close
- Not a hit
- Muffet or Brooks
- Marriageable one
- Marple or Piggy
- Marple or Muffet
- Mademoiselle, overseas
- Mademoiselle or señorita
- Kegler's error
- Howard Stern's ____ America
- Hit-or-___ (not well planned out)
- Hit-or- --
- Go wide of the mark
- Flower girl's courtesy title
- First word on a sash, often
- Feel nostalgic about
- Far from a hit
- Fall wide of
- Fail to perceive
- Fail to make
- Fail to get
- Fail to connect
- Eligible young lady
- Debutante ball attendee
- Daisy for one
- Culture Club "___ Me Blind"
- Complete whiff
- Brick in basketball, e.g
- Be wide
- Battleship response
- Bad guess in Battleship
- America or Universe preceder
- Air ball, for example
- Air ball, e.g
- "Swing and a __, strike one"
- "Our ___ Brooks" (TV oldie)
- "Little ___ Muffet"
- "Driving ___ Daisy"
- "Bye, bye, ___ American Pie ..."
- "Bye-bye, ___ American Pie ..."
- "Bye bye, ___ American Pie ..."
- "A ___ is as good as a mile"
- "___ Teen USA" Best Kissers in the World
- "___ Saigon"
- '-- Congeniality'
- ____ by a mile
- ___ USA
- ___ Universe pageant
- ___ Universe
- ___ Manners
- ___ America
- ___ Alabama ("Bachelorette" Hannah Brown's title)
- __ Piggy
- __ America Competition
- Air ball, e.g
- Marines clashing with squadron leader — almost a catastrophe
- Lose opportunity, as badly aimed torpedo may?
- Failed attempt
- Hit alternative
- Strindberg's "___ Julie"
- Failure
- See 25-Across
- Ole ___
- Overlook
- Fail to see
- ___ America pageant
- Overshoot, say
- Young lady
- Long for
- Pageant title
- Fail to make contact with
- В В Air ball, e.g.
- Forgo
- Shoot past, e.g.
- Hit's alternative
- Fail to catch, as a thrown ball
- Get wrong
- Go wide of, say
- Girl's title
- "Little ___ Sunshine" (2006 film)
- Oversight
- Whiff
- Hit's opposite
- What a 61-Across will be called for only a little while longer
- Fail to notice
- ___ Piggy
- See 1-Across
- The Rolling Stones' "___ You"
- Fail to connect with
- Be errant, say
- Start of a pageant winner's title
- Master's counterpart
- Yearn for
- Notice the absence of
- A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
- A young woman
- Liberty or America
- Liberty preceder
- Lass
- Peach or Piggy
- Be unsuccessful
- Be nostalgiac
- Escape
- Regret the loss of
- TV's ___ Piggy
- Swiss ___
- Marple or Havisham
- *See 16 Across: Abbr.
- Fail to hit a target
- ___ Liberty
- Hit or _____
- Be lonely for
- Universe or America
- Feel another's absence
- See 75 Down
- "Little ___ Marker"
- ___ the bus
- America or Liberty
- Jeune fille
- Pine for — young lady
- Mile equivalent, proverbially
- America or Muffet
- "Driving ___ Daisy," Uhry play
- ___ Marple
- Muffet or America
- Fan
- Girl in form is sixteen
- Girl in film is seductive
- Waste large satellite's power during repair
- Avoid weapons? Not half
- Skip lessons given by her?
- Forget a title
- Fail to meet - girl
- Fail to hear young woman
- Pine for - young lady
- Pine for a girl
- Don’t hit her!
- Don’t hit girl
- Pass by
- Young woman's title
- Young girl
- Be nostalgic for
- Fall short of the mark
- Be off the mark
- Fail to attend
- ___ the mark
- Feel nostalgic for
- Unmarried woman
- "___ me?"
- Word on a pageant sash
- It's as good as a mile, they say
- Answer incorrectly
- Piggy's title
- Feel the lack of
- Young female
- Pageant winner's address
- Feel the absence of
- Errant shot
- Rue the loss of
- Feel longing for
- Wish were here
- Unmarried woman's title
- Not understand
- Mile equivalent?
- Long to see again
- Let go by
- Hit's counterpart
- Battleship call
- Bad shot
- "I ___ you"
- Yearn to see again
- Word on a sash
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miss \Miss\ (m[i^]s), n.; pl. Misses (m[i^]s"s[e^]z). [Contr. fr. mistress.]
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
Note: There is diversity of usage in the application of this title to two or more persons of the same name. We may write either the Miss Browns or the Misses Brown.
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A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses.
--Cawthorn. A kept mistress. See Mistress,
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[Obs.]
--Evelyn.4. (Card Playing) 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.
Miss \Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Missed (m[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Missing.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [root]100. See Mis-, pref.]
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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.
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
--Locke. -
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay.
--Prior.We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood.
--Shak. -
To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one.
--Shak.Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him.
--1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21.What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.
--Milton.To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.
Miss \Miss\, n.
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
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Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.]
There will be no great miss of those which are lost.
--Locke. -
Mistake; error; fault.
--Shak.He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.
--Ascham. Harm from mistake. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Miss \Miss\ (m[i^]s), v. i.
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To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.
--Bacon.Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
--Waller. -
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them.
--Atterbury. -
To go wrong; to err. [Obs.]
Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?
--Spenser. -
To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See Missing, a.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the term of honour to a young girl" [Johnson], originally (c.1600) a shortened form of mistress. By 1640s as "prostitute, concubine;" sense of "title for a young unmarried woman, girl" first recorded 1660s. In the 1811 reprint of the slang dictionary, Miss Laycock is given as an underworld euphemism for "the monosyllable." Miss America is from 1922 as the title bestowed on the winner of an annual nationwide U.S. beauty/talent contest. Earlier it meant "young American women generally" or "the United States personified as a young woman," and it also was the name of a fast motor boat.\n
late 12c., "loss, lack; " c. 1200, "regret occasioned by loss or absence," from Old English miss "absence, loss," from source of missan "to miss" (see miss (v.)). Meaning "an act or fact of missing; a being without" is from late 15c.; meaning "a failure to hit or attain" is 1550s. To give something a miss "to abstain from, avoid" is from 1919. Phrase a miss is as good as a mile was originally, an inch, in a miss, is as good as an ell (see ell).
Old English missan "fail to hit, miss (a mark); fail in what was aimed at; escape (someone's notice)," influenced by Old Norse missa "to miss, to lack;" both from Proto-Germanic *missjan "to go wrong" (cognates: Old Frisian missa, Middle Dutch, Dutch missen, German missen "to miss, fail"), from *missa- "in a changed manner," hence "abnormally, wrongly," from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change" (root of mis- (1); see mutable). Related: Missed; missing.\n
\nMeaning "to fail to get what one wanted" is from mid-13c. Sense of "to escape, avoid" is from 1520s; that of "to perceive with regret the absence or loss of (something or someone)" is from late 15c. Sense of "to not be on time for" is from 1823; to miss the boat in the figurative sense of "be too late for" is from 1929, originally nautical slang. To miss out (on) "fail to get" is from 1929.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A failure to hit. 2 A failure to obtain or accomplish. 3 An act of avoidance. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To fail to hit. 2 (context transitive English) To fail to achieve or attain. 3 (context transitive English) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret. 4 (context transitive English) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception. 5 (context transitive English) To fail to attend. 6 (context transitive English) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). 7 (context sports English) To fail to score (a goal). Etymology 2
n. 1 A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. 2 An unmarried woman; a girl. 3 A kept woman; a mistress. 4 (context card games English) 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.
WordNet
n. a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, missy, young lady, young woman, fille]
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) [syn: misfire]
v. 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" [syn: lose]
feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" [ant: attend]
leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to]
fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!" [syn: lack] [ant: have]
fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" [ant: hit]
be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" [syn: escape]
Wikipedia
- Miss is an honorific title of unmarried woman, see also Mistress (form of address)
Miss or MISS may also refer to:
- Man In Space Soonest, a U.S. Airforce space program that eventually became Project Mercury.
- MISS (OS), an early Soviet operating system.
- Mississippi, a state of the United States.
- Miss World, oldest surviving major international beauty pageant
- Miss Universe
- Miss Press, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
- Cache MISS
- Microbially induced sedimentary structure, a sedimentary structure formed by the interaction of microbes with sediment
Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific traditionally used only for an unmarried woman (not using another title such as " Doctor" or " Dame"). Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of mistress, which was used for all women. A period is not used to signify the contraction. Its counterparts are Mrs., usually used only for married women, and Ms., which can be used for married or unmarried women.
The plural Misses may be used, such as in The Misses Doe. The traditional French "Mademoiselles" (abbreviation "Mlles") may also be used as the plural in English language conversation or correspondence. In Australian schools the term miss is used interchangeably with female teacher.
Usage examples of "miss".
Miss Robinson and the schoolmistress, he ate: julienne soup, baked and roast meats with suitable accompaniments, two pieces of a tart made of macaroons, butter-cream, chocolate, jam and marzipan, and lastly excellent cheese and pumpernickel.
Without them, under traditional accounting the company could miss the earnings targets Wall Street was projecting for the year just ended.
Initially Roger had been tempted by the idea of such affluence, but after making the acquaintance of the most undesirable Miss Grimbald, he had decided marrying her would be too great a sacrifice for him to endure beyond the measure of an hour.
By the time Miss Tyler had returned with a tray, Lady Millicent had re-entered the parlor, and the musicians had switched to an allemande, from a suite by Herr Bach, whose sonorities included the sound of a few string instruments.
It is a curious and a mystical fact, that at the period to which I am alluding, and a very short time, only a little month, before he successfully solicited the hand of Miss Milbanke, being at Newstead, he fancied that he saw the ghost of the monk which is supposed to haunt the abbey, and to make its ominous appearance when misfortune or death impends over the master of the mansion.
He still intended to return to his vitarium, to talk further with the Anarch, but he could not very well do it until he had parted company with Miss Fisher.
The young companion of Miss Crawley, at the conclusion of their interview, came in to receive their instructions, and administered those antiphlogistic medicines which the eminent men ordered.
Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.
Miss Schwartz was flicking through the pages of colored graphs Ruth had thoughtfully provided as appendices to her paper.
Boy ascribed a low coefficient of irritant potential to Miss Stern, regarding her as a typical young American intellectual woman seeking a cause to justify her existence, until marriage, career, or artsy hobbies defused her.
For years past Miss Gardiner has been famous as a raiser of stock, equine and bovine, but unfortunately she has been most frequently before the public as the strong assertor of territorial rights.
Essex, she and her parents and her elder sister, married now and living in Canada, and she went home regularly to Wendens Ambo, sometimes with Bruce, sometimes alone, although she was going to miss that for a while, as they had left only a week ago to drive to Switzerland.
If there had been significant developments on what happened to the missing 727 while he was on his way to Angola, the secretary would either have indicated that in the e-mail, or, at the least, ordered him to call home.
Boeing 727 that had gone missing from Luanda, Angola, had been stolen by or for a Russian arms dealer by the name of Vasily Respin either for parts to be used by one of his enterprises or to be sold to others.
But just at the moment that he was about to hit the ground astoundingly hard he saw lying directly in front of him a small navy-blue holdall that he knew for a fact he had lost in the baggage-retrieval system at Athens airport some ten years in his personal time-scale previously, and in his astonishment he missed the ground completely and bobbed off into the air with his brain singing.