What's the difference between miss and missis?

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.

Missis


Definition:

  • (n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (2) Although MIA recently commissioned Bad Girls remixes featuring Azealia Banks and Missy Elliott, the new record will have "no collabs".
  • (3) Guitarist Donna Matthews left the band after she told frontwoman Justine Frischmann she wanted the new album to sound like Missy Elliott.
  • (4) The story of Missy's disappearance had been all too familiar to anyone who read second-rate thrillers about serial killers.
  • (5) You won’t find any swing or crooning standards here: just Missy, Kanye, Biggie and Foxy, while some rather good MCs-in-training keep pace on the stage.
  • (6) Irvine Welsh, John Waters, Chris Rock, Aidan Moffat, Missy Elliott –sometimes a radio edit just won’t do.
  • (7) "And I know where to find Missy's body," Mack laughed.
  • (8) During a tour of the White House, the pair were also joined by the rapper Missy Elliott for a rendition of This is For My Girls and later Elliott’s hit Get Ur Freak On.
  • (9) As well as the return of the Daleks, this season will bring back John Simm in his role as the doctor’s nemesis The Master, while Michelle Gomez will also be reprising her role as Missy.
  • (10) The two drove around the White House driveway while they sang Beyoncé and rapped with Missy Elliot, who made a cameo.
  • (11) But I also like JME and Fat White Family and Bobbie Gentry and Sly Stone and Missy Elliott and some of the strange Appalachian folk music that S plays me from time to time.
  • (12) Justice Lex Lasry will speak at the Federation Square event and Missy Higgins will perform music.
  • (13) While SS15 moved through dogtooth print and double-breasted coats, this collection - with soundtrack of Missy Elliot and The Cure turned up loud - fell to streetwear.
  • (14) In correspondence, Clinton calls her friend “Missy Diane”, and signs Christmas cards to her from the White House “From Potus and Flotus”.
  • (15) I played drums, but you can’t write a song just to drums.” Brown was the first Spice Girl to record a solo record, and an impressive one it was, too – I Want You Back , featuring hip-hop star Missy Elliott .
  • (16) Missy Elliot does a guest rap on This Is For My Girls and she popped up in the back seat to deliver her verse, then joined Corden and Obama on Get Ur Freak On, a song whose lyrics didn’t seem to phase Michelle one bit.
  • (17) But when they reached the shore, Missy was nowhere to be seen.
  • (18) She is seventh in the world rankings Key rival Missy Franklin, another event where the American leads the world Medal prediction Finalist Liam Tancock 100m backstroke Over one length of the pool, Tancock is all but unbeatable.
  • (19) And since you've been such a good man, I'll show you where Missy is buried."
  • (20) Shortly after the summer that Missy vanished, The Great Sadness had draped around Mack's shoulders like an invisible cliche.

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