Miss vs Mistake - What's the difference?
miss | mistake |
(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
To fail to achieve or attain.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
*
To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
To fail to attend.
To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
, title= (obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
A failure to hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
An act of avoidance.
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
* Cawthorn
A kept woman; a mistress.
(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.
An error; a blunder.
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(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place
To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
* Shakespeare
* Johnson
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
As nouns the difference between miss and mistake
is that miss is form of address for an unmarried woman while mistake is an error; a blunder.As a verb mistake is
to understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.miss
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) missen, from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- I missed the target.
- I tried to kick the ball, but missed .
- Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss .
- Flying bullets now, / To execute his rage, appear too slow; / They miss , or sweep but common souls away.
- to miss an opportunity
- When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
- I miss you! Come home soon!
- What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss .
- 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.
- miss the joke
- Joe missed the meeting this morning.
- I missed the plane!
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- Amongst the angels, a whole legion / Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; / What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss ?
- What here shall miss , our toil shall strive to mend.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeAntonyms
* (to fail to hit) hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with * (to feel the absence of) have, featureDerived terms
* hit-and-miss * miss a trick * miss the mark * miss the point * miss the boat * miss fire, misfire * miss out * near missNoun
(es)- I think I’ll give the meeting a miss .
Etymology 2
From (mistress).Noun
(wikipedia miss)- You may sit here, miss .
- You may sit here, Miss Jones.
- Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, / Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses .
- (Evelyn)
mistake
English
Noun
(en noun)- After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes' were made. I notice, however, that my ' mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
Synonyms
* See alsoUsage notes
* Usually make a mistake. SeeVerb
- Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- My father's purposes have been mistook .
- A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.
- Servants mistake , and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.
- (Shakespeare)