Miss vs Trust - What's the difference?
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(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)
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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.
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
* John Locke
Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
* Bible, Psalms, lxxi. 5
(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
* Shakespeare
* Denham
(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
(legal) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate)
To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
* (rfdate)
To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
* (rfdate) 2 John 12.
* (rfdate) Heb. xiii. 18.
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
* (rfdate) .
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
* (rfdate) .
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
* Johnson
To risk; to venture confidently.
* (rfdate)
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
* (rfdate)
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
* (rfdate) Isa. xii. 2
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
* (rfdate) Johnson
As nouns the difference between miss and trust
is that miss is form of address for an unmarried woman while trust is confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.As a verb trust is
to place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.As an adjective trust is
(obsolete) secure, safe.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)
trust
English
Noun
(en noun)- He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
- Most take things upon trust .
- 1671', O ever-failing '''trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, ''Samson Agonistes
- 1611', Such '''trust have we through Christ. — ''Authorised Version , 2 Corinthians iii:4.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust .
- O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
- [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust .
- Reward them well, if they observe their trust .
- I put the house into my sister's trust .
Synonyms
* belief * confidence * expectation * faith * hopeAntonyms
* mistrustDerived terms
* beef trust * brain trust * brains trust * constructive trust * honorary trust * partial trust * remainder trust * resulting trust * spendthrift trust * trust fall * trust fund * trust territory * trustworthyVerb
(en verb)- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- In God We Trust - written on denominations of US currency
- I will never trust his word after.
- He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
- Trust me, you look well.
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
- We trust we have a good conscience.
- I trust you have cleaned your room?
- Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust , Now to suspect is vain.''
- Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
- More to know could not be more to trust .
- I will trust and not be afraid.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .