miss

To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.

I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.

I tried to kick the ball, but missed.

To avoid hitting.

The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.

To fail to achieve or attain.

The company missed all its sales targets.

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

To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.

Joe missed the meeting this morning.

I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but I missed it this year.

To avoid or escape.

The car just missed hitting a passer-by.

We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.

A failure to physically hit.

In eight shots at the target he had six misses.

"I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss."

A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.

After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.

Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.

An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).

I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.

Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.

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

Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.

A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.

You may sit here, miss.

You may sit here, Miss Jones.

A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.

Here's my report, Miss Smith.

An unmarried woman; a girl.

While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses.

A kept woman; a mistress.

courting a Miss

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.