The difference between Miss and Sister

When used as nouns, miss means a failure to hit, whereas sister means a daughter of the same parents as another person.

When used as verbs, miss means to fail to hit, whereas sister means to strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

check bellow for the other definitions of Miss and Sister

  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.

  1. Sister as a noun:

    A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.

    Examples:

    "My sister is always driving me crazy."

  2. Sister as a noun (informally):

    A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; a nun.

    Examples:

    "Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent."

  3. Sister as a noun:

    Any butterfly in the genus , so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.

  4. Sister as a noun (British):

    A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.

  5. Sister as a noun:

    Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.

    Examples:

    "Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister."

  6. Sister as a noun (slang):

    A black woman.

  7. Sister as a noun (informal):

  8. Sister as a noun:

    A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.

  9. Sister as a noun (attributively):

    An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.

    Examples:

    "sister publication, sister city, sister projects"

  10. Sister as a noun (comptheory):

    A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.

  11. Sister as a noun (usually, attributively):

    Something in the same class.

    Examples:

    "sister ships'', ''sister facility"

  1. Sister as a verb (transitive, construction):

    To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

    Examples:

    "I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists."

  2. Sister as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To be sister to; to resemble closely.

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