miss

IPA(Pronunciation)

/mɪs/

Noun

Japanese Meaning

的を射らない、命中しない状態 / 目的や成果が得られず、失敗すること / 回避行動、避けるための行動

His miss at the net cost the team the championship.

彼がネットでボールを当てられなかったことで、チームは優勝を逃した。

Sense（1）

A failure to hit.

I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss.

Sense（2）

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

Sense（3）

An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)

I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

Sense（4）

(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

misses

（ plural ）