Miss vs. Mix — What's the Difference?

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.

To combine or blend into one mass or mixture

To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with

To create or form by combining ingredients

To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).

To add (an ingredient or element) to another

To fail to perceive, experience, or understand

To combine or join

To fail to accomplish or achieve

To bring into social contact

To fail to attend or perform

To produce (an organism) by crossbreeding.

To fail to answer correctly

To combine (two or more audio tracks or channels) to produce a composite audio recording.

To fail to benefit from; let slip

To produce (a soundtrack or recording) in this manner.

To escape or avoid

To become combined or blended together

To discover the absence or loss of

To be capable of being blended together

To be without; lack

To associate socially or get along with others

To feel the lack or loss of

To mate so as to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.

To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something

To become involved

To be unsuccessful; fail

A combination of diverse elements

To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

A mixture of ingredients packaged and sold commercially

A failure to hit or make contact with something.

A recording that is produced by combining and adjusting two or more audio tracks or channels.

A failure to be successful

An animal resulting from interbreeding, especially a dog or cat of mixed breed.

The misfiring of an engine.

(transitive) To stir together.

Miss Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a girl or single woman.

(transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).

Used as a form of polite address for a girl or young woman

(ambitransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.

A young unmarried woman.

(transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer machine.

Miss Used in informal titles for a young woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity

To combine (several tracks).

Mis·ses A series of clothing sizes for women and girls of average height and proportions.

To produce a finished version of (a recording).

(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.

(ambitransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.

(transitive) To avoid; to escape.

The result of combining items normally kept separate.

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

(music) The result of mixing several tracks.

(transitive) To fail to understand;

(music) The finished version of a recording.

(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.

(transitive) To fail to attend.

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.

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

To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

(transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.

To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.

To combine (two or more activities) within a specified or implied time frame; as, to mix studying and partying while at college.

To fail to help the hand of a player.

To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

(sports) To fail to score (a goal).

To associate; to mingle; as, Democrats and Republicans mixed freely at the party.

To go wrong; to err.

A commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

An event that combines things in a mixture;

A failure to hit.

The act of mixing together;

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

Mix together different elements;

An act of avoidance give}}

Open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups;

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

To bring or combine together or with something else;

A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.

As of electronic signals;

An unmarried woman; a girl.

Add as an additional element or part;

A kept woman; a mistress.

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;

(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.

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.

A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

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.

The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

Loss; want; felt absence.

Mistake; error; fault.

Harm from mistake.

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.

To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.

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.

To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.

To go wrong; to err.

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

A young woman;

A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;

Feel or suffer from the lack of;

Fail to attend an event or activity;

Leave undone or leave out;

Fail to reach or get to;

Be without;

Fail to reach;

Be absent;

Fail to experience;