Miss - Definition

n 1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, miss,
missy, young lady, young woman, fille]
2: a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) [syn: miss,
misfire]
3: a form of address for an unmarried woman
v 1: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;
"I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost
part of what he said" [syn: miss, lose]
2: feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
3: fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert";
"He missed school for a week" [ant: attend, go to]
4: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?";
"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn:
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out,
overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart]
5: fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
6: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something
missing in my jewelry box!" [syn: miss, lack] [ant:
feature, have]
7: fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" [ant: collide
with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike]
8: be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
9: fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
[syn: miss, escape]