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  1. transitive verb To fail to hit, reach, catch, meet, or otherwise make contact with.
  2. transitive verb To fail to perceive, understand, or experience: completely missed the point of the film.
  3. transitive verb To fail to accomplish, achieve, or attain (a goal).
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  • He will, on reflection, probably realise that his miss was the turning point of a game where fortune appeared to be smiling on his side. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • The reason for the miss was a twenty percent decline in Barbie sales and a strong currency that made overseas sales worth less. —  BloggingStocks
  • The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss .. —  Irons in the Fire
  • Arguably the miss was an effect not a cause, and was a significant as opposed to defining moment.
  • The desire to make amends for the miss was there for everyone to see. —  4thegame.com: Latest Barclays Premier League News
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  1. Middle English missen, from Old English missan; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Short for mistress.

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  1. from Middle English missen, myssen, from Anglo-Saxon missan (not *missian), miss (fail to hit), escape the notice of, = OFries. missa, be without, = Dutch missen = Middle Low German Low German missen = Old High German Middle High German G. missen = Icelandic missa = Swedish mista = Danish miste = Gothic (Moesogothic) *missjan (not recorded), miss; from an orig. noun or adjective extant as a prefix, Anglo-Saxon and English mis- = Dutch mis- = Old High German missa-, Middle High German misse-, German misse-, miss-, mis- = Icelandic mis- = Swedish miss- = Danish mis- = Gothic (Moesogothic) missa-, ‘ wrongly,’ ‘amiss,’ in the adverb, English miss, Middle English mis = Dutch mis = Icelandic mis, wrongly, amiss, — Gothic (Moesogothic) misso, interchangeably, and in the derivative, Anglo-Saxon mislīc, misselīc, mistlīc, missenlīc, missendlīc, etc., = Gothic (Moesogothic) missaleiks, various, diverse, different (see mislich); prob.with orig. pp.suffix -t(English -d, -ed) from the root of Anglo-Saxon mīthan (past participle mīthen), avoid, conceal, be concealed, refrain, = Old Saxon mīthan = OFries. mītha = Dutch mijden = Middle Low German miden = Old High German mīdan, Middle High German mīden, German meiden, avoid. The different senses ‘miss,’ ‘avoid,’ ‘change,’ ‘be various,’ may all be derived from that of' deviate.' Cf. the development of senses associated with mad, from ‘change,’ ‘alter,’ to ‘maim’ in a physical sense, ‘distract’ in a mental sense. See mis-, amiss, etc.
  2. from Middle English mis, mys, misse, mysse; from the verb. Cf. amiss.
  3. Middle English mis, mys, mysse = Dutch mis = Icelandic mis, adverb, wrong, amiss: see miss, v. Cf. miss, n., amiss.
  4. An abbreviation of mistress, at first prob. as a title, the form Mistress, as written Mrs. and pronounced mis′ez, being still commonly abbreviated in rustic use in New England and among the Southern negroes, to Miss, often printed Mis'. Cf. also def. 3. See mistress, Mrs.
 

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