miss
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3.1
- noun
- /mɪs/
:
fallo
- After the accident, there were several misses in the safety protocols that needed to be addressed.
- a near miss
- miss rate
- cache miss
I shot him real quick, no misses, you know, right away.
- I shot him real quick, no misses, you know, right away.
- They just are very, very hit and miss, more miss than hit.
- And then there are missed connections, near misses longed for connections that never happened.
- And that, that that was an unfortunate miss of his leadership.
Examples
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Oh, big swing and a miss from George.
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Applications with high miss rates yield a greater gain than those with low miss rates.
Academic text (2000) -
But did you have a lot of hits and misses as you were going through this?
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All of these factors are causing the already high miss rates of server workloads to become even higher.
Academic text (2000) -
"Yair, well let's give it a miss tonight, then, eh?" said Jackson.
Fiction book (1994) -
And when she wakes up, finally, there's all these missed phone calls from Stockholm.
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A palpable miss.
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The search party was called out to find the dozen people who were reported as missing in the storm.
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The museum displayed a list of all the missing artifacts from its collection.
Synonyms
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1.8
Not doing something that should be done
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6.3
An attempt that does not work as planned
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7.0
An attempt that fails to get the result you wanted
To fail to reach a goal someone wants
Failure to reach a planned goal
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Etymology
The noun miss comes from the same old verb meaning 'fail to hit or reach', so a miss is the act of not hitting, getting, or achieving something.