Miss vs. Miz — 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 fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with

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

To fail to perceive, experience, or understand

To fail to accomplish or achieve

To fail to attend or perform

To fail to answer correctly

To fail to benefit from; let slip

To escape or avoid

To discover the absence or loss of

To be without; lack

To feel the lack or loss of

To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something

To be unsuccessful; fail

To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

A failure to hit or make contact with something.

A failure to be successful

The misfiring of an engine.

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

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

A young unmarried woman.

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

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

(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

(transitive) To avoid; to escape.

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

(transitive) To fail to understand;

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

(transitive) To fail to attend.

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

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

To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.

To fail to help the hand of a player.

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

To go wrong; to err.

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

A failure to hit.

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

An act of avoidance give}}

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

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

An unmarried woman; a girl.

A kept woman; a mistress.

(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;