The difference between Miss and Strike

Miss as a verb (ambitransitive):

To fail to hit.

Miss as a verb (transitive):

To fail to achieve or attain.

Miss as a verb (transitive):

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

Miss as a verb (transitive):

To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.

Miss as a verb (transitive):

To fail to attend.

Miss as a verb (transitive):

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

Miss as a verb (only in present tense):

To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

Miss as a verb (poker, said of a card):

To fail to help the hand of a player.

Miss as a verb (sports):

To fail to score (a goal).

Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

To go wrong; to err.

Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Miss as a noun:

A failure to hit.

Miss as a noun:

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

Miss as a noun:

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

Miss as a noun (computing):

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

Miss as a noun:

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

Miss as a noun:

An unmarried woman; a girl.

Miss as a noun:

A kept woman; a mistress.

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.

Strike as a verb (transitive, sometimes with [[out]] or [[through]]):

To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

Strike as a verb (physical):

To have a sharp or sudden effect. To hit. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. To manufacture, as by stamping. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke. To cause to ignite by friction.

Strike as a verb (transitive):

To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

Strike as a verb (personal, social):

To have a sharp or severe effect. To punish; to afflict; to smite. To carry out a violent or illegal action. To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way. To impinge upon. To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions. To impress, seem or appear (to). To create an impression. To score a goal. To steal money. To take forcibly or fraudulently. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse. To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

Strike as a verb:

To touch; to act by appulse.

Strike as a verb (transitive):

To take down, especially in the following contexts. To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

Strike as a verb (intransitive):

To set off on a walk or trip.

Strike as a verb (intransitive):

To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

Strike as a verb (dated):

To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

Strike as a verb (intransitive):

To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

Strike as a verb:

To make and ratify.

Strike as a verb:

To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.

Strike as a verb (masonry):

To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

Strike as a verb:

To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

Strike as a verb:

To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.

Strike as a verb:

To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

Strike as a verb (obsolete):

To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

Strike as a verb:

To balance (a ledger or account).

Strike as a noun (baseball):

A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.

Strike as a noun (bowling):

The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.

Strike as a noun:

A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.

Strike as a noun:

A blow or application of physical force against something.

Strike as a noun (finance):

In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.

Strike as a noun:

An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.

Strike as a noun (cricket):

The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

Strike as a noun:

The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

Strike as a noun (geology):

The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.

Strike as a noun:

An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

Strike as a noun (obsolete):

Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

Strike as a noun:

An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

Strike as a noun (ironworking):

A puddler's stirrer.

Strike as a noun (obsolete):

The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.

Strike as a noun:

The discovery of a source of something.

Strike as a noun:

A strike plate.