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Definition: Near Miss |
Near MissNoun1. An accidental collision that is narrowly avoided. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Military | Any circumstances in flight when the degree of separation between two aircraft might constitute a hazardous situation. Also called airmiss. (references) |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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Expressions using "near miss": a near miss ♦ it was a near miss. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
near miss | 22 |
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| Language | Translations for "near miss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | goditje e saktë pa qëllim. (various references) | |
Czech | málem úspìch. (various references) | |
German | beinahezusammenstoß. (various references) | |
Greek | αποτυχία (a near miss, abortion, defection, dud, failure, flivver, flop, flunk, miscarriage, misfire, non event, setback, washout). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajszálon múlt találat. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'ドロ シ類 (CHI, close call, fuse, fuse cock, HE, hearing, heuristic, Hewlett, Hewlett Packard, Hilbert, hill, hill climb, hillbilly music, Himalaya, Houston, HP, HR, human, human assessment, human document, human ecology, human engineering, human interest, human interface, human relations, humanism, humanist, humanistic, humanity, humanization, humanlike, humanoid, hut, hydrozoan, hypochondria, interview, listening comprehension, public hearing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | 'ヤリハット (close call). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earnay issmay.(various references) | |
Russian | почти пропускать, попадание близ цели. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | za dlaku (hairbreadth). (various references) | |
Swedish | det träffade alldeles nära målet (it was a near miss). (various references) | |
Thai | สถานการ"์หวุ"หวิ". (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: seminars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: arsines, inseams, marines, massier, remains, samisen, seminar. | |
-2 letters: aimers, airmen, amines, animes, anises, arisen, arises, armies, arsine, inarms, inseam, manses, marine, marses, masers, mensas, mesian, messan, miners, misers, namers, raises, ramens, ramies, remain, remans, remiss, resins, rinses, sanies, sansei, sarins, sarsen, semina, serais, serins, simars, sirens, smears, snares. | |
-3 letters: aimer, airns, amens, amies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: aneurisms, masonries, mislearns, romanises. | |
+2 letters: antiserums, creaminess, dreaminess, harmonises, mannerisms, mannerists, marshiness, misandries, miscreants, mishanters, muscarines, normalises, nursemaids, reassuming, seminaries, seminarist, smarminess, spearmints, stramonies, streamings, submarines. | |
+3 letters: administers, admonishers, aeronomists, angiosperms, antismokers, astronomies, centralisms, disbarments, dressmaking, gangsterism, gormandises, grangerisms, ignoramuses, ironmasters, mainstreams, manifesters, marchioness, martensites, masterminds, mineralises, monasteries, monetarisms, monetarists, neorealisms, neutralisms, noisemakers, paramnesias, parsimonies, personalism, proseminars, ravishments, readmission, retransmits, revanchisms, ringmasters, rosemalings, seminarians, seminarists, smatterings, streamlines, submariners. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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