Miss - English meaning

noun

A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly.

Usage examples:

I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turk…

noun

A stupid or careless mistake.

Usage examples:

She stopped, finally aware of the terrible blunder she had made

verb

Make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily.

Usage examples:

He knew he'd blundered

noun

A big mistake, especially one resulting from a lack of care or thought

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His failure to respond immediately to the accusations was a major political blunder., he feared he …

noun

A girl or young woman.

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It is ironic that what o'casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at t…

noun

A girl or young woman

noun

A young unmarried woman.

Usage examples:

The young damsel has been captured by baddie pirate barbossa because she possesses a rare coin.

noun

A young woman who is not married

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The heroine in this movie isn’t like some damsel in distress (= woman needing a man’s help) waiting…

noun

A mistake.

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Spelling errors

noun

A mistake, esp. in a way that can be discovered as wrong, or the making of such mistakes

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[ c ] a spelling/mathematical error, [ u ] investigators said the train crash was caused by human e…

noun

Something done or written by accident that is not correct, not accurate, or does not give the right result

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Make/introduce an error can i amend my vat return online if i've made an error?, correct/find an er…

noun

Lack of success.

Usage examples:

An economic policy that is doomed to failure

noun

A complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one.

Usage examples:

His plans turned into a fiasco

noun

A complete failure

Usage examples:

The entire political campaign was a fiasco, and at the end he drew only 30% of the votes.

verb

Fall, move, or hang in a loose and ungainly way.

Usage examples:

His blond hair flopped over his eyes

noun

A heavy, loose, and ungainly movement, or a sound made by it.

Usage examples:

They hit the ground with a flop

combining form

Floating-point operations per second (used as a measure of computing power).

Usage examples:

A gigaflop computer

verb

Fail to remember.

Usage examples:

He had forgotten his lines

verb

To be unable to remember; fail to remember

Usage examples:

[ t ] you’d better not forget your mother’s birthday., [ + (that) clause ] she forgot (that) she ha…

noun

A female child.

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A six-year-old girl

noun

A female child or, more generally, a female of any age

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Two little girls showed us around the kindergarten., the girls’ basketball team is undefeated., we …

noun

A girl or young woman.

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He married a lass from yorkshire

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

I'm going to see a wee lassie tonight

noun

A girl or young woman

noun

A female domestic servant.

Usage examples:

Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid

noun

A woman who is employed to clean hotel rooms and make them neat, or a woman who is a servant in a person’s home

Usage examples:

We left a note in our room for the maid to give us extra towels.

noun

A woman who works as a servant in a hotel or in someone's home

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In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily maid service., in california many illegal…

noun

An unmarried girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

Two knights fought to win the hand of a fair maiden

adjective

(of an older woman) unmarried.

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A maiden aunt

noun

A girl or young woman

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In the story, the prince woos the fair maiden., a maiden voyage/flight

verb

Fail to hear (a person or their words) correctly.

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She must have misheard him

verb

To fail to hear someone's words correctly or in the way that was intended and to think that something different was said

Usage examples:

I'm sure i didn't say that! you must have misheard (me).

noun

An act or judgement that is misguided or wrong.

Usage examples:

Coming here was a mistake

verb

Be wrong about.

Usage examples:

Because i was inexperienced i mistook the nature of our relationship

noun

An action or decision that is wrong or produces a result that is not correct or not intended

Usage examples:

We all make mistakes., [ + to infinitive ] it was a mistake to come to this restaurant without a re…

verb

Fail to interpret or understand (something) correctly.

Usage examples:

He had misunderstood the police officer's hand signals

verb

To fail to understand something or someone

Usage examples:

[ t ] i think she misunderstood what i meant.

noun

Short for bon mot.

noun

A girl or young woman, especially a man's girlfriend.

Usage examples:

Chrissie, frank's mot, started flinging things down at them from the bedroom window

noun

(in the uk) a compulsory annual test for safety and exhaust emissions of motor vehicles of more than a specified age.

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Interestingly, the press spec sheet makes no mention of springs, and if you tried the standard mot …

noun

A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.

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The idyllic world of nymphs and shepherds

noun

(in ancient greek and roman traditional stories) a goddess or spirit in the form of a young woman, living in a tree, river, mountain, etc.

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We played the part of wood nymphs dancing around snow white in the forest., the god apollo is madde…

noun

A form of an insect that has not yet developed into an adult, but is often very similar to an adult

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It is possible that tick nymphs could repeatedly bite a person., the nymph feeds and grows, moultin…

noun

A person or thing that has been left out or excluded.

Usage examples:

There are glaring omissions in the report

noun

The fact of not including something that should have been included, or the thing that is not included

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We are not responsible for the omission of information from this website., the document contained a…

verb

Fail to notice.

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He seems to have overlooked one important fact

noun

A commanding position or view.

Usage examples:

The overlook to the townsite

verb

To have or give a view of something from above

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Our hotel room overlooked the harbor., his film was nominated for an oscar, but reiner himself was …

noun

A girl or woman.

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A female may be my sheila, my bird, my charley, my good sort, my hot-drop, my judy or my wife, but …

noun

A girl or a woman

verb

Lose one's footing and slide unintentionally for a short distance.

Usage examples:

I slipped over on the ice

noun

An act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance.

Usage examples:

A single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside

noun

A small piece of paper, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.

Usage examples:

His monthly salary slip

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

In the new film about columbus, she plays the token buxom wench

verb

(of a man) habitually associate with prostitutes.

noun

A young woman