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MISS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of address for an unmarried woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Miss" is a kind of...):

form of address; title; title of respect (an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. 'Mr.' or 'General')

Sense 2

Meaning:

A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

Synonyms:

misfire; miss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("miss" is a kind of...):

failure (an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose)

Derivation:

miss (fail to reach)

miss (fail to reach or get to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A young female

Example:

a young lady of 18

Synonyms:

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("miss" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miss"):

working girl (a young woman who is employed)

valley girl (a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley)

hoyden; romp; tomboy (a girl who behaves in a boyish manner)

sweater girl (a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters)

soubrette (a pert or flirtatious young girl)

shop girl (a young female shop assistant)

sex bomb; sex kitten; sexpot (a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal)

rosebud ((a literary reference to) a pretty young girl)

ring girl (a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights)

peri (a beautiful and graceful girl)

party girl (an attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men)

mill-girl (a girl who works in a mill)

belle (a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals)

bimbo (a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men)

chachka; tchotchke; tchotchkeleh; tsatske; tshatshke ((Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman)

chit (a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect)

colleen (an Irish girl)

bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench (informal terms for a (young) woman)

flapper (a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress)

gal (alliterative term for girl (or woman))

gamine (a girl of impish appeal)

Gibson girl (the idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson)

jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl (a girl or young woman who is unmarried)

maid; maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))

May queen; queen of the May (the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave undone or leave out

Example:

The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten

Synonyms:

drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miss"):

forget (forget to do something)

jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fail to experience

Example:

Fortunately, I missed the hurricane

Synonyms:

escape; miss

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "miss" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fail to reach

Example:

The arrow missed the target

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miss"):

overshoot (shoot beyond or over (a target))

undershoot (shoot short of or below (a target))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Antonym:

hit (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Derivation:

miss (a failure to hit (or meet or find etc))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Feel or suffer from the lack of

Example:

He misses his mother

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "miss" is one way to...):

desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)

"Miss" entails doing...:

regret; repent; rue (feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miss"):

regret (feel sad about the loss or absence of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They miss moving

Sense 5

Meaning:

Fail to reach or get to

Example:

She missed her train

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "miss" is one way to...):

fail; go wrong; miscarry (be unsuccessful)

"Miss" entails doing...:

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

miss (a failure to hit (or meet or find etc))

Sense 6

Meaning:

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

Example:

We lost part of what he said

Synonyms:

lose; miss

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miss"):

overlook (look past, fail to notice)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 7

Meaning:

Fail to attend an event or activity

Example:

He missed school for a week

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "miss" is one way to...):

fail; neglect (fail to do something; leave something undone)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miss"):

cut; skip (intentionally fail to attend)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

attend (be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Be without

Example:

There is something missing in my jewelry box!

Synonyms:

lack; miss

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miss"):

want (be without, lack; be deficient in)

exclude (lack or fail to include)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

have (have as a feature)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Be absent

Example:

The child had been missing for a week

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

"An unduly long summer," would have been his thought had he thought about it; as it was, he merely missed the snow in a vague, subconscious way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I may add that Miss Burnet’s age and character make it certain that my first idea that there might be a love interest in our story is out of the question.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The knife, in fact, had come the nearest in the world to missing me altogether; it held me by a mere pinch of skin, and this the shudder tore away.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The branch of surgery concerned with restoration, reconstruction, or improvement of defective, damaged, or missing structures.

(Plastic surgery, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms of the condition depend on the hormones that are missing.

(Panhypopituitarism, NCI Dictionary)

A special value that may be stored in some database columns to represent an unknown, missing, not applicable, or undefined value.

(Null, NCI Thesaurus)

The diagnosis can be missed because of the absence of monoclonal immunoglobulin in the serum or urine.

(Non-Secretory Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The substitution of missing data with the average derived from multiple datasets of data that is not missing.

(Multiple Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

The substitution of missing data with the next-to-last value that is not missing.

(Penultimate Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): "Y" designates that the PerformedActivity is missed.

(Performed Activity Missed Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)