transcription, транскрипция: [ mɪs ]
( misses, missing, missed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
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1.
If you miss something, you fail to hit it, for example when you have thrown something at it or you have shot a bullet at it.
She hurled the ashtray across the room, narrowly missing my head...
When I’d missed a few times, he suggested I rest the rifle on a rock to steady it.
≠ hit
VERB : V n , V
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Miss is also a noun.
After more misses, they finally put two arrows into the lion’s chest.
N-COUNT
2.
In sport, if you miss a shot, you fail to get the ball in the goal, net, or hole.
He scored four of the goals but missed a penalty.
VERB : V n , also V
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Miss is also a noun.
Striker Alan Smith was guilty of two glaring misses.
N-COUNT
3.
If you miss something, you fail to notice it.
From this vantage point he watched, his searching eye never missing a detail...
It’s the first thing you see as you come round the corner. You can’t miss it...
≠ notice
VERB : V n , V n
4.
If you miss the meaning or importance of something, you fail to understand or appreciate it.
Tambov had slightly missed the point...
≠ get
VERB : V n
5.
If you miss a chance or opportunity, you fail to take advantage of it.
Williams knew that she had missed her chance of victory...
It was too good an opportunity to miss.
≠ seize
VERB : V n , V n
6.
If you miss someone who is no longer with you or who has died, you feel sad and wish that they were still with you.
Your mama and I are gonna miss you at Christmas...
VERB : V n
7.
If you miss something, you feel sad because you no longer have it or are no longer doing or experiencing it.
I could happily move back into a flat if it wasn’t for the fact that I’d miss my garden...
He missed having good friends.
VERB : V n / -ing , V n / -ing
8.
If you miss something such as a plane or train, you arrive too late to catch it.
He missed the last bus home.
≠ catch
VERB : V n
9.
If you miss something such as a meeting or an activity, you do not go to it or take part in it.
It’s a pity Makku and I had to miss our lesson last week...
‘Are you coming to the show?’—‘I wouldn’t miss it for the world.’
VERB : V n , V n
10.
If you give something a miss , you decide not to do it or not to go to it. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
Do you mind if I give it a miss?
PHRASE : V inflects
11.
to miss the boat: see boat
not to miss a trick: see trick
see also missing , hit and miss , near miss