different between amiss vs miss

English

Etymology

From a- +? miss.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Adjective

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. (chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

   He suspected something was amiss.

   Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

   • 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

     His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

   • 1836, Charles Joseph La Trobe, The Rambler in Mexico:

     Moreover, all were furnished with carbines and cartridge boxes, and the leader was armed with a sabre with a leather sheath. This was not so much amiss, and would do very well at a distance: but during the two hours' halt at the village aforesaid, I took it into my head, while the owners were enjoying their siesta under the shade of the gateway, just to stride in among them, and take a nearer inspection of the weapons.

   • 2009, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring :

     There is a strong feeling across the land that something is amiss in America. You sometimes hear about these feelings when people discuss their concerns about how the baby boom generation is going to bankrupt our social security or Medicare programs, or about the growing size of the national debt that will be paid for by future generations.

Derived terms

• dead amiss
• go amiss

Translations

Adverb

amiss (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Wrongly; mistakenly
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene ix^[1]:

     "The fire seven times tried this:

     Seven times tried that judgement is,

     That did never choose amiss.

     Some there be that shadows kiss:

     Such have but a shadow's bliss.

     There be fools alive, I wis,

     Silver'd o'er; and so was this.

     I will ever be your head:

     So be gone: you are sped."

   • 1899, The Laxdaela Saga (translated by Muriel A. C. Press) Chapter 44

     Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common."

2. Astray.
3. Imperfectly.

Noun

amiss (plural amisses)

1. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis […] .

   • 1635, John Donne, "His parting from her":

     Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss […] .

Further reading

• amiss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amiss in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Masis, Massi, Samis, Simas, Sisam, missa, saims, simas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), Proto-Germanic *missijan? (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).

Verb

miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, "Instructions to a Painter

     Flying bullets now,
     To execute his rage, appear too slow;
     They miss, or sweep but common souls away.

2. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

   • When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.

3. (transitive) To avoid; to escape.

4. (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
   • The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.

5. (transitive) To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

6. (transitive) To fail to attend.

7. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

8. (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

9. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.

10. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
11. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
12. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Antonyms

• (to fail to hit): hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
• (to feel the absence of): have, feature

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

miss (plural misses)

1. A failure to hit.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)

4. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

Derived terms

• swing and a miss

Translations

Etymology 2

From mistress.

Alternative forms

• Miss
• meess, Meess (archaic, eye dialect)

Noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

1. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.

2. An unmarried woman; a girl.
3. A kept woman; a mistress.

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4. (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.

Coordinate terms

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

Related terms

• missis, missus
• missy

Translations

Anagrams

• ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English miss.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mis/

Noun

miss f (plural misses)

1. beauty queen

Dutch

Etymology

From English miss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/

Noun

miss f (plural missen, diminutive missje n)

1. A winner of a beauty contest.

   Annelien Coorevits was Miss België in 2007.

   Annelien Coorevits was Miss Belgium in 2007.

2. A beauty.
3. A girl with a high self-esteem.

   Dat is nogal een miss, hoor.

   She has some air.

German

Alternative forms

• miß (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

miss

1. second-person singular imperative of messen

Ingrian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?/

Pronoun

miss

1. inessive singular of mikä

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2]

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

miss

1. imperative of missa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miss?, *missijaz, *miss? (“loss, want”), from Proto-Indo-European *meit- (“to change, replace”). Cognate with Old Norse missir, missa (“a loss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miss/, [mis]

Noun

miss n

1. loss; absence

Declension

Related terms

• missan (verb)

Polish

Etymology

From English Miss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?is/

Noun

miss f (indeclinable)

1. beauty queen

Further reading

• miss in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• miss in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English miss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mis/, [?mis]
• Homophone: mis

Noun

miss f (plural misses)

1. beauty queen

References

• “miss” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

miss c

1. A failure to hit.
2. A mistake.
3. (rare) A beauty; a winner of a beauty contest.

   Miss Hawaii gick vidare och vann Miss America-tävlingen

   Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest

Declension

Synonyms

• (failure to hit): bom
• (mistake): misstag
• (beauty): skönhetsmiss