Usually means: Fail to hit, reach, contact.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word miss:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. miss: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Miss, Miss, miss, miss, miss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Miss, miss, miss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Miss, miss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Miss, miss: Vocabulary.com
  6. MIss, Miss, Miss, miss: Wordnik
  7. Miss, miss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Miss, miss: Wiktionary
  9. miss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. miss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. miss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Miss, Miss, miss: Dictionary.com
  13. miss (n.), miss (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. miss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MISS (disambiguation), MISS, Miss (disambiguation), Miss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Miss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. miss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. miss: Rhymezone
  19. miss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. miss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. MISS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. miss: FreeDictionary.org
  23. miss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Miss, miss: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. miss: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Miss, miss: Merriam-Webster
  27. Miss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -miss, miss-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miss: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MISS: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MISS: Acronym Finder
  3. Miss: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. miss: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. miss, miss, miss, miss, Miss: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Miss: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Miss: Dan's Poker
  2. MISS: Billiard Terms of the Month
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Miss: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Miss: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid or escape.
verb:  (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to understand.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
verb:  (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
verb:  (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
verb:  (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
noun:  A failure to physically hit.
noun:  A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
noun:  An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
noun:  (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
noun:  (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
noun:  (snooker) 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.
noun:  (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
noun:  (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
noun:  (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
noun:  A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
noun:  A term of address by a student for a female teacher.
noun:  An unmarried woman; a girl.
noun:  A kept woman; a mistress.
noun:  (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
noun:  Form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.
noun:  Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents.
noun:  (Philippines) A respectful term of address or reference to a woman of higher rank or position before the woman's given name or nickname.
noun:  (law) Mississippi, as used in case citations.
noun:  Initialism of medium intensity steady state.
noun:  Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure.

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