The difference between Have and Miss
When used as nouns, have means a wealthy or privileged person, whereas miss means a failure to hit.
When used as verbs, have means to possess, own, hold, whereas miss means to fail to hit.
check bellow for the other definitions of Have and Miss
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To possess, own, hold.
Examples:
"I have a house and a car."
"Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!"
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
Examples:
"I have two sisters."
"I have a lot of work to do."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
Examples:
"I have breakfast at six o'clock."
"Can I have a look at that?"
"I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
Examples:
"What class do you have right now? I have English."
"Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day."
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Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[past participle]]):
Examples:
"I have already eaten today."
"I had already eaten."
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Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[w:Infinitive, to-infinitive]]):
See have to.
Examples:
"I have to go."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To give birth to.
Examples:
"The couple always wanted to have children."
"My wife is having the baby right now!"
"My mother had me when she was 25."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To engage in sexual intercourse with.
Examples:
"He's always bragging about how many women he's had."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To accept as a romantic partner.
Examples:
"Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me."
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Have as a verb:
To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
Examples:
"They had me feed their dog while they were out of town."
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Have as a verb:
To cause to be.
Examples:
"He had him arrested for trespassing."
"The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears."
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Have as a verb:
To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
Examples:
"The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week."
"I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice."
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Have as a verb:
To depict as being.
Examples:
"Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening."
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Have as a verb:
Examples:
"We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?"
"Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?"
"lb UK usage ''He has some money, hasn't he?"
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Have as a verb (British, slang):
To defeat in a fight; take.
Examples:
"I could have him!"
"I'm gonna have you!"
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Have as a verb (dated):
To be able to speak a language.
Examples:
"I have no German''."
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Have as a verb:
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Examples:
"Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before."
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Have as a verb:
To be afflicted with, suffer from.
Examples:
"He had a cold last week."
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Have as a verb:
To experience, go through, undergo.
Examples:
"We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that."
"He had surgery on his hip yesterday."
"I'm having the time of my life!"
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Have as a verb:
To trick, to deceive.
Examples:
"You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke."
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Have as a verb (transitive, often with present participle):
To allow; to tolerate.
Examples:
"The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it."
"I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night."
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Have as a verb (transitive, often used in the negative):
To believe, buy, be taken in by.
Examples:
"I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Examples:
"Thank you for having me!"
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
Examples:
"What do you have for problem two?"
"I have two contacts on my scope."
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Have as a verb (transitive, of a jury):
To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
Examples:
"We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon."
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Have as a noun:
A wealthy or privileged person.
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Have as a noun (uncommon):
One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
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Have as a noun (AU, NZ, informal):
A fraud or deception; something misleading.
Examples:
"They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have."
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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.