The difference between Girl and Miss
When used as nouns, girl means a female child, adolescent, or young woman, whereas miss means a failure to hit.
When used as verbs, girl means to feminize or girlify, whereas miss means to fail to hit.
check bellow for the other definitions of Girl and Miss
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Girl as a noun:
A female child, adolescent, or young woman.
Examples:
"Amanda is a girl of 16."
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Girl as a noun:
A young female animal.
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Girl as a noun:
Any woman, regardless of her age.
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Girl as a noun:
A female servant; a maid.
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Girl as a noun (uncommon, card games):
A queen (the playing card.)
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Girl as a noun (colloquial):
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Girl as a noun:
One's girlfriend.
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Girl as a noun:
One's daughter.
Examples:
"Your girl turned up on our doorstep."
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Girl as a noun (UK, dialect, obsolete):
A roebuck two years old.
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Girl as a noun (US, slang):
Cocaine, especially in powder form.
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Girl as a verb (transitive):
To feminize or girlify.
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Miss as a verb (ambitransitive):
To fail to hit.
Examples:
"I missed the target."
"I tried to kick the ball, but missed."
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To fail to achieve or attain.
Examples:
"to miss an opportunity"
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
Examples:
"I miss you! Come home soon!"
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
Examples:
"miss the joke"
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To fail to attend.
Examples:
"Joe missed the meeting this morning."
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
Examples:
"I missed the plane!"
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Miss as a verb (only in present tense):
To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
Examples:
"The car is missing essential features."
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Miss as a verb (poker, said of a card):
To fail to help the hand of a player.
Examples:
"Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!"
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Miss as a verb (sports):
To fail to score (a goal).
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Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To go wrong; to err.
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Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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Miss as a noun:
A failure to hit.
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Miss as a noun:
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
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Miss as a noun:
An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
Examples:
"I think I’ll give the meeting a miss."
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Miss as a noun (computing):
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
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Miss as a noun:
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
Examples:
"You may sit here, miss."
"You may sit here, Miss Jones."
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Miss as a noun:
An unmarried woman; a girl.
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Miss as a noun:
A kept woman; a mistress.
Examples:
"rfquotek Evelyn"
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Miss as a noun (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.