Miss vs. Skip — 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.

Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce

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

Jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise

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

Omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)

To fail to perceive, experience, or understand

Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss

To fail to accomplish or achieve

Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water

To fail to attend or perform

Act as skip of (a side)

To fail to answer correctly

A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement

To fail to benefit from; let slip

An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.

To escape or avoid

A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

To discover the absence or loss of

A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse

To be without; lack

A cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

To feel the lack or loss of

The captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.

To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something

To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.

To be unsuccessful; fail

To leap lightly about.

To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet

A failure to hit or make contact with something.

To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes

A failure to be successful

To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.

The misfiring of an engine.

(Informal) To leave hastily; abscond

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

To misfire. Used of an engine.

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

To leap or jump lightly over

A young unmarried woman.

To pass over without mentioning; omit

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

To miss or omit as one in a series

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

To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.

(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.

To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

(Informal) To leave hastily

(transitive) To avoid; to escape.

(Informal) To fail to attend

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

A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.

(transitive) To fail to understand;

An act of passing over something; an omission.

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

A control mechanism on an audio or video player that interrupts the playing of a recording and advances or reverses to the beginning of the nearest chapter, track, or other division.

(transitive) To fail to attend.

A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.

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

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

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

(intransitive) To leap about lightly.

To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.

(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

To fail to help the hand of a player.

(transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

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

(transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

To go wrong; to err.

Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

A failure to hit.

To leap lightly over.

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

To jump rope.

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To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

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

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

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

To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

An unmarried woman; a girl.

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

A kept woman; a mistress.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(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.

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

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

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

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

(radio) skywave propagation

A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. see also skep.

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.

(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

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

(steelmaking) A skip car.

Loss; want; felt absence.

A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

Mistake; error; fault.

A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

Harm from mistake.

(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.

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.

A beehive.

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

Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

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.

(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.

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

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

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

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.

To go wrong; to err.

The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

A young woman;

A college servant.

A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

A basket. See Skep.

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

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

Feel or suffer from the lack of;

An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

Fail to attend an event or activity;

A charge of sirup in the pans.

Leave undone or leave out;

A beehive; a skep.

Fail to reach or get to;

A light leap or bound.

Be without;

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

Fail to reach;

A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Be absent;

To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; - commonly implying a sportive spirit.

Fail to experience;

Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; - often followed by over.

To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.

To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

A gait in which steps and hops alternate

A mistake resulting from neglect

Bypass;

Intentionally fail to attend;

Jump lightly

Leave suddenly;

Bound off one point after another

Cause to skip over a surface;