MISSES

Definition: MISSES

MISSES

Plural

1. Of Miss

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MISSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Crosswords: MISSES

Oh! Kelso misses another one (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Moms didnt care she was getting drunk wit misses berray (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

I hope my premenition misses (Lately; performing artist: Jodeci)

I'll be the one that misses you (How You Gonna Act Like That; performing artist: TYRESE)

I miss my Swiss Miss. My Swiss Miss misses me. (references; author: unknown)

It seems themes are sought by thousands of mythical misses. (references; author: unknown)

The Misses Stooge (1935)

Felix the Cat Misses the Cue (1926)

The Misses Finch and Their Nephew Billy (1911)

Hits & Misses (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dictionary of Teleliteracy: Television's 500 Biggest Hits, Misses, and Events (reference)

• Near Misses in Neuroanesthesia (reference)

• Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia (reference)

• Near Misses in Pulmonary and Cardiothoracic Critical Care (reference)

• Oracle's E-Business Play : Hits and Misses [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Unhittable - No Hitters, Perfect Games and Near Misses (reference)

• Lucy Misses Mertzes/Lucy Raises Chick (reference)

• Near Misses (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Misses (reference)

• The Greatest Misses (reference)

• Thug Misses (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Flames from a bomb hit on her forecastle are visible, as are smoke and splashes from dive bombers' near misses off her starboard side. Photographed from a Torpedo Squadron Five TBD-1. What appear to be erratic torpedo tracks are visible in the lower left. Credit: NAVY.

Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on a Japanese frigate in the March 29, 1945 attack which cost the Japs nine ships, South China Sea. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Misses Cooke's school room, Freedman's Bureau, Richmond, Va. / from a sketch by Jas. E. Taylor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pillsbury, Mary, and Katherine, Misses, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress.

Albert Steiger Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Misses dresses. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hahne & Co., business in Montclair, New Jersey. Junior Misses. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Do ducks swim?", as the misses Eugenia Dunbar and Mary Moose ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Misses Emma Stitt, Virginia Edwards, Cecil L. Jones, and Alice Milburn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Daughters of movie magnate call on the president. Misses Edith and Irene Mayer, daughters of Louis Mayer, head of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Corp., wearing fur and fur-trimmed coats. Credit: Library of Congress.

Li Hung Chang never misses the Sunday Journal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The divination of despair is in sort of mysterious bow which never misses its aim.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Attempts have been made to limit costs by focusing neonatal testing on those at highest risk. Unfortunately, research shows that this approach misses 50 percent of children who are eventually diagnosed with severe to profound hearing impairment. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

The Lebanese government has thus far failed to put into effect structural reform, and privatization is not expected to take place before 2002. As a result, the international rating agency Standard and Poor's placed Lebanon on "creditwatch"-a negative signal to the market and investors that S&P might in the near future downgrade Lebanon's sovereign rating if the government misses its targets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "MISSES": near-misses.

Chinese 

小姐. (various references)

Danish

manglende frø inden for den ønskede frøafstand (empty cells, lag). (various references)

Dutch

lege cellen (empty cells, lag). (various references)

French

manque (be missing, Miss), manquants, alvéoles vides. (various references)

German

versäumt (overstays), verabsäumt. (various references)

Greek 

κενά θυλάκια σπόρων (empty cells, lag). (various references)

Italian

mancanza (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failing, failure, fault, lack, Lacuna, lapse, shortage, shortcoming, want), vuoti (vacuums), alveoli vuoti (empty cells, lag). (various references)

Korean 

미스 (miss). (various references)

Pig Latin

issesmay.(various references)

Portuguese

falta (absence, default, deficiency, fail, failing, forfeit, foul, guilt, lack, lacuna, miss, mistake, need, non-attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, wantage), alvéolos vazios (empty cells, lag). (various references)

Spanish

falta (absence, bankruptcy, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, error, fail, failing, fault, foul, infringement, is lacking, lack, lapse, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, mistake, need, out of, paucity, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, slip, want), fallo (adjudication, decision, failure, fault, findings, hole, judgement, judgment, order, rule, ruling, shortcoming, trouble, verdict), claro (apparent, break, bright, bright interval, broad, celestial, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, clearing, clearly, crystal clear, dainty, definite, direct, discharged, distinct, evident, fair, gap, glade, it is clear, light, lightsome, liquid, obvious, of course, opening, pellucid, plain, precise, rift, sure, thin, transparent, unshadowed, weak). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "MISSES": dismisses, koumisses, kumisses, premisses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"MISSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amisses, disses, isss, masesse, Masset, meses, messers, Meyssac, miese, Miessen, Milspec, Miossens, Misees, misef, miseg, misel, misels, mises, misex, Misheck, misos, misosis, missan, misse, missen, missers, missey, missi, missles, mizzas, mosso, mssers, myse, Mysids, mysis, nisse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: seisms.

-1 letter: mises, seism, semis, sises.

-2 letters: isms, mess, mise, miss, seis, semi, sims.

-3 letters: ems, ess, ism, mis, sei, sim, sis.

-4 letters: em, es, is, me, mi, si.

+1 letter: missels, missets, missies, misuses, semises, sexisms.

+2 letters: impasses, kumisses, massiest, messiahs, messiest, metisses, miseases, misguess, misseats, missends, missense, missiles, missises, missives, missteps, missuses, mistress, misusers, mossiest, mussiest, samisens, seismism, semioses, semiosis, siameses, slimness, surmises.

+3 letters: asterisms, biomasses, casteisms, dimnesses, dismissed, dismisses, embassies, emissions, escapisms, impresses, isthmuses, kirmesses, koumisses, messieurs, messiness, mimesises, misbiases, misparses, mispoises, misraises, missenses, misshapes, misspaces, misspeaks, misspells, misspends, misstates, missteers, misstyles, mistiness, misusages, moistness, mousiness, mushiness, muskiness, mussiness, mustiness, pessimism, pessimist, premisses, seaminess, seismisms, semigloss, semitists, sesamoids, sliminess, slimsiest, smileless, smokiness, solecisms, surmisers, symbioses, systemics, trismuses, tsimmeses.