misss: meaning and definitions

To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with: He swung at and missed the ball. The winger missed the pass. The ball missed the basket.

To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).

To fail to perceive, experience, or understand: I missed my favorite TV show last night. You completely missed the point of the film.

To fail to accomplish or achieve: just missed setting a new record.

To fail to attend or perform: never missed a day of work.

To fail to answer correctly: missed three questions on the test.

To fail to benefit from; let slip: miss a chance.

To escape or avoid: We took a different way and missed the traffic jam.

To discover the absence or loss of: I missed my book after getting off the bus.

To be without; lack: a cart that is missing a wheel.

To feel the lack or loss of: Do you miss your family?

To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something: took a shot near the goal and missed.

To be unsuccessful; fail: a money-making scheme that can't miss. To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

A failure to hit or make contact with something.

A failure to be successful: The new movie was a miss.

The misfiring of an engine.

To fail to discharge. Used of a firearm.

To fail to achieve the anticipated result.

To fail to avail oneself of an opportunity.

To fail to understand.

Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a girl or single woman.

Used as a form of polite address for a girl or young woman: I beg your pardon, miss.

A young unmarried woman.

Used in informal titles for a young woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity: Miss Organization; Miss Opera.

A series of clothing sizes for women and girls of average height and proportions.