Dodge vs. Miss — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dodge and Miss
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Dodge
Dodge is an American brand of automobiles and a division of Stellantis, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles include performance cars, though for much of its existence Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.
Miss
Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific traditionally used only for an unmarried woman (not using another title such as "Doctor" or "Dame"). Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of mistress, which was used for all women.
Dodge
To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
Miss
To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with
He swung at and missed the ball. The winger missed the pass. The ball missed the basket.
Dodge
To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit
Kept dodging the reporter's questions.
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Miss
To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).
Dodge
To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
Miss
To fail to perceive, experience, or understand
I missed my favorite TV show last night. You completely missed the point of the film.
Dodge
To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly
The child dodged through the crowd.
Miss
To fail to accomplish or achieve
Just missed setting a new record.
Dodge
To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
Miss
To fail to attend or perform
Never missed a day of work.
Dodge
The act of dodging
Made a dodge to the left.
Miss
To fail to answer correctly
Missed three questions on the test.
Dodge
A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone
A tax dodge.
Miss
To fail to benefit from; let slip
Miss a chance.
Dodge
(ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
He dodged traffic crossing the street.
Miss
To escape or avoid
We took a different way and missed the traffic jam.
Dodge
To avoid; to sidestep.
The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
Miss
To discover the absence or loss of
I missed my book after getting off the bus.
Dodge
(archaic) To go hither and thither.
Miss
To be without; lack
A cart that is missing a wheel.
Dodge
To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
Miss
To feel the lack or loss of
Do you miss your family?.
Dodge
(transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Miss
To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something
Took a shot near the goal and missed.
Dodge
To trick somebody.
Miss
To be unsuccessful; fail
A money-making scheme that can't miss.
Dodge
An act of dodging.
Miss
To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.
Dodge
A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
Miss
A failure to hit or make contact with something.
Dodge
(slang) A line of work.
Miss
A failure to be successful
The new movie was a miss.
Dodge
(Australian) Dodgy.
Miss
The misfiring of an engine.
Dodge
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
Miss
Miss Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a girl or single woman.
Dodge
To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
Miss
Used as a form of polite address for a girl or young woman
I beg your pardon, miss.
Dodge
To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Miss
A young unmarried woman.
Dodge
Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
Miss
Miss Used in informal titles for a young woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity
Miss Organization.
Miss Opera.
Dodge
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Miss
Mis·ses A series of clothing sizes for women and girls of average height and proportions.
Dodge
The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries.
Miss
(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
I missed the target.
I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
Dodge
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
Miss
(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
To miss an opportunity
Dodge
A quick evasive movement
Miss
(transitive) To avoid; to escape.
The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
Dodge
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Miss
(transitive) 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!
Dodge
Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid;
The child dodged the teacher's blow
Miss
(transitive) To fail to understand;
Miss the joke
Dodge
Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course;
The pickpocket dodged through the crowd
Miss
(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
Dodge
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
He dodged the issue
She skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
He evaded the questions skillfully
Miss
(transitive) To fail to attend.
Joe missed the meeting this morning.
Miss
(transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
I missed the plane!
Miss
(transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
The car is missing essential features.
Miss
To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
Miss me with that nonsense!
Miss
To fail to help the hand of a player.
Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
Miss
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
Miss
To go wrong; to err.
Miss
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
Miss
A failure to hit.
Miss
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
Miss
An act of avoidance give}}
I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
Miss
(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
Miss
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
You may sit here, miss.
You may sit here, Miss Jones.
Miss
An unmarried woman; a girl.
Miss
A kept woman; a mistress.
Miss
(card games) 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.
Miss
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
Miss
A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses,Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses.
Miss
A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
Miss
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.
Miss
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
Miss
Loss; want; felt absence.
There will be no great miss of those which are lost.
Miss
Mistake; error; fault.
He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.
Miss
Harm from mistake.
Miss
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.
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
Miss
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.
She would never miss, one day,A walk so fine, a sight so gay.
We cannot miss him; he does make our fire,Fetch in our wood.
Miss
To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one.
Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him.
What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.
Miss
To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.
Flying bullets now,To execute his rage, appear too slow;They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
Miss
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.
Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them.
Miss
To go wrong; to err.
Amongst the angels, a whole legionOf wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss;What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?
Miss
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Miss
A young woman;
A young lady of 18
Miss
A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
Miss
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;
I missed that remark
She missed his point
We lost part of what he said
Miss
Feel or suffer from the lack of;
He misses his mother
Miss
Fail to attend an event or activity;
I missed the concert
He missed school for a week
Miss
Leave undone or leave out;
How could I miss that typo?
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
Miss
Fail to reach or get to;
She missed her train
Miss
Be without;
This soup lacks salt
There is something missing in my jewellery box!
Miss
Fail to reach;
The arrow missed the target
Miss
Be absent;
The child had been missing for a week
Miss
Fail to experience;
Fortunately, I missed the hurricane
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