What's the difference between lady and miss?

Lady


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
  • (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
  • (n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
  • (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
  • (n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.
  • (n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage.
  • (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
  • (a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
  • () The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (2) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
  • (3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (4) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
  • (5) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
  • (6) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (7) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (8) --A fit of acute depersonnalisation in a young lady was suppressed within eight days with the administration of 1 g p.o.
  • (9) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
  • (10) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
  • (11) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
  • (12) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (13) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
  • (14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
  • (15) Contemporary songs - by Adele, Lady Gaga, La Roux - are simulacra of those produced in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
  • (16) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
  • (17) He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,’ and it wouldn’t sound good, OK, all right?
  • (18) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
  • (19) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
  • (20) A case of an aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva in a 38-year-old lady is reported.

Miss


Definition:

  • (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
  • (n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
  • (n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
  • (v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
  • (v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
  • (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
  • (v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
  • (v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
  • (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
  • (n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
  • (n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
  • (n.) Mistake; error; fault.
  • (n.) Harm from mistake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
  • (4) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (5) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (6) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
  • (7) The striker missed the whole 2006-07 season but returned to make 35 appearances in 2007-08.
  • (8) They would say 'Here comes Miss Marple' when I came by."
  • (9) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (11) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
  • (12) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
  • (13) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
  • (14) Phosphoglucomutase 1, an enzyme mapping on the short arms of chromosome 1, is constantly missing in the leukemic cell line K-562 in spite of the presence of three No.
  • (15) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
  • (16) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
  • (17) In patients with less than 15 diverticula, 3.1% of lesions were missed, while in those with more than 15 diverticula, 20.4% of tumors were undetected.
  • (18) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
  • (19) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
  • (20) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.