Word Finder - miss

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A failure to hit.

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A failure to obtain or accomplish.

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An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).

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I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

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The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

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To fail to hit.

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I missed the target.

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To fail to achieve or attain.

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to miss an opportunity

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To avoid; to escape.

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The car just missed hitting a passer-by.

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

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I miss you! Come home soon!

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To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

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miss the joke

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To fail to attend.

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Joe missed the meeting this morning.

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To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

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I missed the plane!

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To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

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The car is missing essential features.

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

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Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!

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To fail to score (a goal).

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To go wrong; to err.

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To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Finally Miss Clara gathered her papers.

You don't miss your friends?

Miss Clara chuckled like a mother hen.

You'd never miss ONE of them, I'm sure!

Miss Clara nodded and glanced at Brandon.

I miss the stars.

Unfortunately, he did not miss the child until the following morning.

Do you ever miss the countryside? she asked.

The regimental commander ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the commander-in-chief's regarding the regiment.

Miss Sullivan taught me to take all the care of my new pet.

If he thinks I might be up today, he'll insist on staying home so he won't miss me.

I miss you too.

If I miss, I'll paralyze you for eternity.

She didn't miss the way he bristled but turned her back to him to return to the library.

Do you miss me already?

Do I miss you even when I know I can call you and you.d come without question?

She had 87 officers and men in her instead of 54, as the surplus had contrived to stay on board rather than miss the fight.

Don't miss the baklava for dessert and the extensive wine choices.

Dessert includes a green tea ice cream you won't want to miss.

Yancey stepped through the door with his arms full of groceries and Lisa didn't miss the warning look he shot his mother.

He's stalking us and he's going to be successful if Miss Julie spills the beans.

She was a sweet girl and I'd truly miss her when she returned to her mother, and presumably her stepfather.

He'd forgone the trip to pick me up, afraid he'd miss a call for information on his sister's death.

I'm sure you miss him, Dean said, fishing for a reaction.

Dean lied that he'd miss them and strolled into the kitchen where Cynthia and Maria were enjoying a second breakfast.

Something I said made her think she detected in my words a confession that I did remember Miss Canby's story of "The Frost Fairies," and she laid her conclusions before Mr. Anagnos, although I had told her most emphatically that she was mistaken.

First their location; gleaned from that accommodating Miss Washington and her memory of the area code.

God, I'll miss her!

They've taken Miss O'Malley into surgery so it's waiting time.

She didn't miss the way the others moved out of his way or the way the aura of command around him filled up the room.

Me and Miss Worthington are going to do a real study tomorrow.

I'll miss it here.

I have to tell you, Mr. Ryland is a damned sight more pleasant than bossy Miss Quincy, the sister from hell.

You'd miss talking to me?

Do you miss riding on the beach with him?

I'll miss this cabin.

Sir David married Miss Campbell-Preston, a Perthshire heiress, in r81o.

In 1862 a Frenchman named Lejean surveyed the main river, of which he published a map. In 1863 Miss Alexandrine Tinne (q.v.) with a large party of friends and scientists ascended the Ghazal with the intention of seeing how far west the basin of the Nile extended.

Since then (1904) Miss Florence Durham has shown that if the skins of young or embryonic mammals (rats, rabbits and guinea-pigs) be ground up and extracted in water, and the expressed juice be then incubated with solid tyrosin for twentyfour hours, with the addition of a very small amount of ferrous sulphate to act as an activator, a pigmentary substance is thrown down.

Miss Durham interprets her results as indicating that the skin of these pigmented animals normally secretes one or more tyrosinases.

Miss Durham's work suggests that they carry the latter.

The life of the choir-monks was predominantly contemplative, 1 Specimen passages, and also a general picture of the life, will be found in Miss Alice Gardner's Theodore of Studium, ch.

A lady, Miss Florence Nightingale, received the order in 1907.

The Portuguese in Angola and the agents of King Leopold in the Congo State have not been conspicuous friends of missionary enterprise, and the light-hearted childishness of the native character, so well portrayed in Miss Kingsley's writings, shows how difficult it is to build up a strong and stable Christian church.

The Schriften also contained Lessing's early plays, and one new one, Miss Sara Sampson (1755).

Hitherto Lessing had, as a dramatist, followed the methods of contemporary French comedy as cultivated in Leipzig; Miss Sara Sampson, however, marks the beginning of a new period in the history of the German drama.

Miss Nichols fi -ids that it occurs very soon after the germination of the spore in Cc sinus, but no fusion of cells or migration of nuclei was to be observed.

Keenly interested in the education of women, she made friends with Miss Emily Davies, Madame Bodichon, Miss Buss and others.

Miss dough's personal charm and high aims, together with the development of Newnham College under her care, led her to be regarded as one of the foremost leaders of the women's educational movement.

Room was found for the daughter of Mrs Desmoulins, and for another destitute damsel, who was generally addressed as Miss Carmichael, but whom her generous host called Polly.