different between miss vs viss

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

English

Alternative forms

• vis

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil ???? (v?cai) and/or Telugu ???? (v?se)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

viss (plural visses)

1. A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).

Related terms

• tical (a unit of weight equal to 0.01 viss)

Translations

Anagrams

• ISVs

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse viss (“certain, sure”), from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. Cognate with Swedish viss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

Adjective

viss (comparative vissari, superlative vissastur)

1. certain, sure, positive

   Ertu viss? — Já, ég er alveg viss.

   Are you sure? — Yes, I'm positive.

2. certain, having been determined but unspecific

   Að falla úr vissri hæð.

   To fall from a certain height.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (sure): öruggur, (informal, dated) sikker
• (certain): ákveðinn

Derived terms

• óviss

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *visas, from Proto-Indo-European *wi-so-s, from *wi-, *w?- (“separated, divided; two parts of a whole”). Cognates include Lithuanian vìsas, Sudovian wisa, Proto-Slavic *v?x? (Old Church Slavonic ???? (v?s?), Russian ???? (ves?), Belarusian ?????? (uvjés?), Ukrainian ???? (ves?), ?????? (uvés?), Bulgarian ??? (vse), Czech ves, Polish wszy, Sanskrit ?? (ví, “apart, asunder, off, in several directions”), ????? (ví?va, “all, each, whole”), Avestan ????????????????????-? (v?spa-), Old Persian [script needed] (visa-, “all, whole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vis]

Adjective

viss (no definite forms; irreg. adv. (none))

1. (usually singular) all, whole, entire (considered as a single entity)

2. (of time periods, in the accusative) all, whole (during the entire time period)

3. (usually plural) all, all the... (the entire group of, without exception)

4. (with abstractions entities, ideas) all, full (maximally intense)

Pronoun

viss (indefinite)

1. (masculine singular forms) all, everything, anything

   vieta, kur? var?ja atrast visu ko: labo un slikto, jauno un veco, atpalikušo un progres?vo - a place where one could find all that (= all kinds of things): good and bad, new and old, backward and progressive

2. (plural forms) all, everyone, everybody

   visi jau ir pa?duši - everybody has already eaten

   visi ir veseli - all are healthy

   n?ca visi kop? - they all came together

   visu v?rd? - in the name of (= on behalf of) everyone

   visi bez iz??muma - everybody, without exception

   visi skraid?ja ap ugunsgr?ku k? apmulsuši, cits caur citu vaiman?dami - everybody (just) ran around the fire confusedly, wailing at each other

   visi, kas no m?tes ir aizg?juši pasaul? laimi mekl?t, ir apg?juši pasaulei apk?rt un atraduši tikai m?ti - all those who went away from their mother to look for happiness in the world, went all around the world and found only (their) mother

Usage notes

Viss has no definite forms; the indefinite forms are used in all cases. It has also no comparative or superlative forms.

Declension

Synonyms

• (of "whole"): vesels
• (for time periods): augs

Antonyms

• (of "everything"): nekas

Derived terms

• All superlative adjectives and superlative adverbs.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse víss

Adjective

viss (neuter singular visst, definite singular and plural visse)

1. certain

   til en viss grad - to a certain extent

Antonyms

• uviss

Derived terms

• visshet

References

• “viss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víss

Adjective

viss (neuter singular visst, definite singular and plural visse)

1. certain

Antonyms

• uviss

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German wes

Conjunction

viss

1. if

Synonyms

• dersom

References

• “viss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse viss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. Cognate with Icelandic viss.

Pronunciation

Adjective

viss (comparative vissare, superlative vissast)

1. certain, convinced

   Experterna har nu blivit vissa om olyckans orsaker.

   The experts have now become certain regarding the causes of the accident.

2. some, certain, particular (not comparable)

   I vissa avseenden, fungerar det inte.

   In some ways, it doesn't work.

Declension

Related terms

• visshet

See also

• några