To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.
To avoid hitting.
The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.
To fail to achieve or attain.
The company missed all its sales targets.
A failure to physically hit.
In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
Mississippi, as used in case citations.
Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), fro...
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A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
You may sit here, miss.
Initialism of medium intensity steady state.