miss
/mɪs/ sustantivo A1En español: fallo
- 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 y expresiones
De la biblioteca
So he began to prate to Miss Marian of clubs, of teas, of golf and riding and kennels and cotillions and tours abroad and threw out hints of a yacht lying at Larchmont.
“My dear Miss Marian,” he exclaimed—“work!
You may call me—Miss Marian.”
“Come then, Miss Marian,” said the young architect, gaily, but with perfect courtesy; “you will not have far to walk.
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