miss
/mɪs/ noun A1- A failure to physically hit. · In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
- 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.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give). · I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
- Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt. · Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
- The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A 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.
Plural misses
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Well, unless he has a burrow close by or a change of clothes ready, they can hardly miss him.
Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn when she was only eight years old.
“And is Miss Darcy as handsome as her brother?” said Mr.
“Not so much as I could wish, sir: but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
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