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

  1. 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!"

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. 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."

  5. Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[past participle]]):

    Examples:

    "I have already eaten today."

    "I had already eaten."

  6. Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[w:Infinitive, to-infinitive]]):

    See have to.

    Examples:

    "I have to go."

  7. 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."

  8. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To engage in sexual intercourse with.

    Examples:

    "He's always bragging about how many women he's had."

  9. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To accept as a romantic partner.

    Examples:

    "Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me."

  10. 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."

  11. 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."

  12. 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."

  13. 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."

  14. 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?"

  15. Have as a verb (British, slang):

    To defeat in a fight; take.

    Examples:

    "I could have him!"

    "I'm gonna have you!"

  16. Have as a verb (dated):

    To be able to speak a language.

    Examples:

    "I have no German''."

  17. 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."

  18. Have as a verb:

    To be afflicted with, suffer from.

    Examples:

    "He had a cold last week."

  19. 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!"

  20. Have as a verb:

    To trick, to deceive.

    Examples:

    "You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke."

  21. 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."

  22. 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."

  23. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To host someone; to take in as a guest.

    Examples:

    "Thank you for having me!"

  24. 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."

  25. 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."

  1. Have as a noun:

    A wealthy or privileged person.

  2. Have as a noun (uncommon):

    One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

  1. 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."

  1. Miss as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To fail to hit.

    Examples:

    "I missed the target."

    "I tried to kick the ball, but missed."

  2. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To fail to achieve or attain.

    Examples:

    "to miss an opportunity"

  3. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.

    Examples:

    "I miss you! Come home soon!"

  4. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.

    Examples:

    "miss the joke"

  5. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To fail to attend.

    Examples:

    "Joe missed the meeting this morning."

  6. Miss as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "I missed the plane!"

  7. 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."

  8. 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!"

  9. Miss as a verb (sports):

    To fail to score (a goal).

  10. Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To go wrong; to err.

  11. Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

  1. Miss as a noun:

    A failure to hit.

  2. Miss as a noun:

    A failure to obtain or accomplish.

  3. Miss as a noun:

    An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).

    Examples:

    "I think I’ll give the meeting a miss."

  4. Miss as a noun (computing):

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

  1. 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."

  2. Miss as a noun:

    An unmarried woman; a girl.

  3. Miss as a noun:

    A kept woman; a mistress.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Evelyn"

  4. 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.

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