Meaning

• A failure to hit.

• A failure to obtain or accomplish.

• An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).

  "I think I’ll give the meeting a miss."

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

Meaning

• To fail to hit.

  "I missed the target."

• To fail to achieve or attain.

  "to miss an opportunity"

• To avoid; to escape.

  "The car just missed hitting a passer-by."

• To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.

  "I miss you! Come home soon!"

• To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

  "miss the joke"

• To fail to attend.

  "Joe missed the meeting this morning."

• To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

  "I missed the plane!"

• To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

  "The car is missing essential features."

• (said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.

  "Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!"

• To fail to score (a goal).

• To go wrong; to err.

• To be absent, deficient, or wanting.