What's the difference between miss and overpass?

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.

Overpass


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.
  • (v. t.) To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.
  • (v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
  • (v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I came to an overpass and looked at the railway lines beneath me.
  • (2) Militiamen took position on a highway overpass, offering cover as horse-mounted wranglers led protesters to face off against heavily equipped BLM rangers and snipers.
  • (3) A drug gang allied with the Sinaloa cartel left 35 bodies at a freeway overpass in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, a few days after that.
  • (4) It added: “Police urge the protesters to stay calm, and stop charging police cordon lines and occupying the main roads, so that the roads can be reopened to emergency and public vehicles.” Officers appeared to be expecting a long night, with scores sleeping on the floors of a concrete overpass and an office and shopping complex.
  • (5) A source at the Giza public prosecutor’s office said Regeni’s body was found on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, on an overpass close to Cairo’s 6th October district and that his body appeared to have been dragged along the ground.
  • (6) After passing Parque Hundido and the City of Sports stadium complex, the avenue flows into a different kind of downtown, becoming an overpass in places as it crosses vital arteries headed east and west.
  • (7) Back on the highway overpass outside Appleton, a full moon overhead, Gillian Dale and her colleagues flashed their plea to vote for Barrett.
  • (8) The meso-diencephalic level 3 appears to be a critical impairment point: as long as the level is not overpassed, the half of the patients do improve and 10% only die.
  • (9) Increasing these doses up to 10 fold did not improve the antithrombotic effect which did not overpass 60-70% of the controls.
  • (10) These types include: overpass cupping, cupping without pallor of the neuroretinal rim, cupping with pallor of the neuroretinal rim, focal notching of the neuroretinal rim, and bean-pot cupping.
  • (11) "They started firing gas from the overpass and attacking us from all directions."
  • (12) Deep cups, striate openings on the lamina cribrosa and blood vessel overpasses were significantly more seen in POAG than in LTG Hemorrhages on the disc were more frequent in LTG than in POAG.
  • (13) In a second attempt, we showed, that even a TEA was possible, using a ringstripper which cut a typical cylinder of the atheriosclerotic vessel wall overpassing and including the stent.
  • (14) Then the internal temperature is modified by the increasing ambient temperature, but there is a superior limit of this deep body temperature: when it is overpassed, a strong corrective mechanism is applied.
  • (15) They were faced with military-style AR-15 and AK-47 weapons trained on them from a picket line of citizen soldiers on an Interstate 15 overpass, with dozens of women and children in the possible crossfire.
  • (16) The 64-year-old retired schoolteacher was part of the Light Brigade, activists who make illuminated boards with Christmas lights and stand shoulder to shoulder on overpasses, each holding a different word to form phrases.
  • (17) When the mixture of the insecticides is used at a concentration of 0.20%, the levels of chlorfenvinphos after 14 days is not higher than 0.14 ppm; however, when it is used at a 0.15% concentration, this value is overpassed in all the samples.
  • (18) Local media published photos of the nine bloodied bodies, some with duct tape wrapped around their faces, hanging from the overpass along with a message threatening the Gulf cartel: "This is how I will finish all the fools you send."
  • (19) Long lastingly, therefore, Witch-Hunt has been either overpassed straight away or just attributed to violent and pathological a manifestation of collective craze as its own name indicates.
  • (20) What I’m prepared to do,” he said, “is not just the National Guard, but [to deploy] our department of public safety, our Texas Ranger recon team, parks and wildlife wardens … and I will suggest to you there will be other individuals who come to assist in securing that border.” Overpasses for America plans nationwide protests on highway overpasses on 9 August.