MISSname

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  lawMississippi, as used in case citations.

Missnoun/mɪs/

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  A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

  • Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New-Year's-Eve.
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  A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

  • These are the two young ladies that I wanted you to meet, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson.
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  A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

  • The victim was named as Miss Jane Doe.
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  datedregionalA form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

  • Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea?
  • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
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  datedA form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

  • Good morning, Miss. May I help you?
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  A form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.

  • Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.
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  Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, or certain other types of contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents, or the category of contest.

  • Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to our lovely new Miss Yorkshire!
  • And I can now announce that this year's Miss Personality is ... Doris Miggins!
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  derogatoryUsed in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman.

  • Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there.

missverb詞源 1/mɪs/

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  To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.

  • I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.
  • I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
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  To avoid hitting.

  • The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.
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  To fail to achieve or attain.

  • The company missed all its sales targets.
  • When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
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  To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.

  • Joe missed the meeting this morning.
  • I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but I missed it this year.
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  To avoid or escape.

  • The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
  • We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.
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  To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.

  • I miss you! Come home soon!
  • I miss going for walks along the beach.
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  To fail to understand.

  • to miss the joke
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  To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

  • So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.

missnoun詞源 1/mɪs/

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  A failure to physically hit.

  • In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
  • "I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss."
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  A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.

  • After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.
  • Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.
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  An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).

  • I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
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  informalSomeone or something whose loss or absence is felt.

  • Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsThe situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

  • Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.
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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.

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  obsoleteError, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.

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  obsoleteHurt or harm from a mistake or accident.

missnoun詞源 2/mɪs/

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  An unmarried woman; a girl.

  • While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses.
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  A kept woman; a mistress.

  • courting a Miss
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  card-gamesgamesIn the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• medium intensity steady state
• microbially induced sedimentary structure
• Miss when used as a term of address or title of respect