Miss vs. Turn — What's the Difference?

Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific traditionally used only for an unmarried woman (not using another title such as "Doctor" or "Dame"). Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of mistress, which was used for all women.

To cause to move around an axis or center; cause to rotate or revolve

To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with

To cause to move around in order to achieve a result, such as opening, closing, tightening, or loosening

To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).

To alter or control the functioning of (a mechanical device, for example) by the use of a rotating or similar movement

To fail to perceive, experience, or understand

To perform or accomplish by rotating or revolving

To fail to accomplish or achieve

To change the position of so that the underside becomes the upper side

To fail to attend or perform

To spade or plow (soil) to bring the undersoil to the surface.

To fail to answer correctly

To reverse and resew the material of (a collar, for example).

To fail to benefit from; let slip

To revolve in the mind; meditate on; ponder

To escape or avoid

To give a rounded form to (wood, for example) by rotating against a cutting tool.

To discover the absence or loss of

To give a rounded shape to (clay, for example) by rotating and shaping with the hands or tools.

To be without; lack

To give a rounded form to

To feel the lack or loss of

To give distinctive, artistic, or graceful form to

To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something

To change the position of by traversing an arc of a circle; pivot

To be unsuccessful; fail

To present in a specified direction by rotating or pivoting

To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

To cause (a scale) to move up or down so as to register weight

A failure to hit or make contact with something.

To fold, bend, or twist (something).

A failure to be successful

To change the position or disposition of by folding, bending, or twisting

The misfiring of an engine.

To make a bend or curve in

Miss Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a girl or single woman.

To blunt or dull (the edge of a cutting instrument).

Used as a form of polite address for a girl or young woman

To injure by twisting

A young unmarried woman.

To upset or make nauseated

Miss Used in informal titles for a young woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity

To change the direction or course of

Mis·ses A series of clothing sizes for women and girls of average height and proportions.

To divert or deflect

(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.

To reverse the course of; cause to retreat

(transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.

To make a course around or about

(transitive) To avoid; to escape.

To reach and pass (a specified age)

(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.

To change the purpose, intention, or content of by persuasion or influence

(transitive) To fail to understand;

To change the order or disposition of; unsettle

(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

To aim or focus

(transitive) To fail to attend.

To devote or apply (oneself, for example) to something

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

To cause to act or go against; make antagonistic

(transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

To cause to go in a specific direction; direct

To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.

To send, drive, or let go

To fail to help the hand of a player.

To pour, let fall, or otherwise release (contents) from or into a receptacle

(sports) To fail to score (a goal).

To cause to take on a specified character, nature, identity, or appearance; change or transform. Used with to or into

To go wrong; to err.

To affect or change the color of

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

To make sour; ferment

A failure to hit.

To exchange; convert. Used with to or into

A failure to obtain or accomplish.

To keep in circulation; sell and restock

An act of avoidance give}}

To make use of

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

To get by buying and selling

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

To perform successfully; complete

An unmarried woman; a girl.

(Slang) To perform (an act of prostitution)

A kept woman; a mistress.

To move around an axis or center; rotate or revolve.

(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.

To have a sensation of revolving or whirling, especially as a result of dizziness or giddiness

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

To change position from side to side or back and forth

A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.

To progress through pages so as to arrive at a given place

A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

To operate a lathe.

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.

To be formed on a lathe

The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

To direct one's way or course

Loss; want; felt absence.

To change or reverse one's way, course, or direction

Mistake; error; fault.

To change one's actions or attitudes adversely; become hostile or antagonistic

Harm from mistake.

To attack suddenly and violently with no apparent motive

To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.

To channel one's attention, interest, or thought toward or away from something

To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.

To devote or apply oneself to something, as to a field of study

To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one.

To convert to a religion.

To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

To switch one's loyalty from one side or party to another.

To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.

To have recourse to a person or thing for help, support, or information

To go wrong; to err.

To start to use (something) as a solution to a problem or relief of distress

To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

To depend on something for success or failure; hinge

A young woman;

To change so as to be; become

A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

To change; become transformed. Used with to or into

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;

To change color

Feel or suffer from the lack of;

To become sour

Fail to attend an event or activity;

To be stocked and sold

Leave undone or leave out;

To become dull or blunt by bending back. Used of the edge of a cutting instrument.

Fail to reach or get to;

The act of turning or the condition of being turned; rotation or revolution.

Be without;

A change of direction, motion, or position

Fail to reach;

A place, as in a road or path, where a change in direction occurs; a curve

Be absent;

A change or deviation, as in a trend

Fail to experience;

A change or development in a particular way

A variation of a given kind or type

A point marking the end of one period of time and the beginning of the next

The midway point in a round of 18 holes of golf, at which the first set of nine holes has been completed.

A period of participation

A chance or opportunity

One of a series of such opportunities accorded people in succession or in scheduled order

An attack of illness or severe nervousness.

A momentary shock or scare

A characteristic mood, style, or habit; a natural inclination

A distinctive, graceful, or artistic expression or arrangement of words

A deed or action having a good or bad effect on another

A short walk or excursion out and back

A single wind or convolution, as of wire on a spool.

(Music) A figure or ornament, usually consisting of four or more notes in rapid succession and including the principal note, the one a degree above it, and the one a degree below it.

A brief theatrical act or stage appearance.

A transaction on the stock market involving both a sale and a purchase.

The fourth community card in Texas hold'em.

Upper Southern & South Atlantic US An amount that can be carried or transported in one load

To make a non-linear physical movement.

(intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.

(transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.

(intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.

(transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.

(by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.

(transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.

To navigate through a book or other printed material.

Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.

Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.

(intransitive) To change condition or attitude.

(copulative) To become begin to be.

(intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.

To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.

To reach a certain age.

To hinge; to depend.

To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.

To change personal condition.

To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.

To complete.

(transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.

Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

(obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

(archaic) To translate.

To magically or divinely attack undead.

A change of direction or orientation.

A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.

(geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.

A walk to and fro.

A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.

A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.

One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.

A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.

The time required to complete a project.

A fit or a period of giddiness.

A change in temperament or circumstance.

(cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).

(poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.

The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.

A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.

A single loop of a coil.

(rope) A pass behind or through an object.

Character; personality; nature.

(soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

A short skit, act, or routine.

A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.

The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.

To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.

To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; - used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.

To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.

To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; - often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.

To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.

Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.

To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.

To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

To make a turn about or around (something); to go or pass around by turning; as, to turn a corner.

To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.

To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.

Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.

To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.

To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.

To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Muslim.

To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.

To become acid; to sour; - said of milk, ale, etc.

To become giddy; - said of the head or brain.

To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

To be nauseated; - said of the stomach.

To become inclined in the other direction; - said of scales.

To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; - said of the tide.

To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.

Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.

One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.

A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.

Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.

Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.

Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.

Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; - used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.

A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.

A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; - so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.

A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.

A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.

Monthly courses; menses.

An embellishment or grace (marked thus, ), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus , or drawn thus .

A circular segment of a curve;

The act of changing or reversing the direction of the course;

The activity of doing something in an agreed succession;

An unforeseen development;

A movement in a new direction;

Turning away or in the opposite direction;

Turning or twisting around (in place);

A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else);

(sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive

A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program;

A favor for someone;

Taking a short walk out and back;

Change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense;

Undergo a change or development;

Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action;

Cause to move around or rotate;

Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;

To send or let go;

Pass to the other side of;

Move around an axis or a center;

Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of;

Change to the contrary;

To break and turn over earth especially with a plow;

Change color;

Cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics;

Let (something) fall or spill a container;

Twist suddenly so as to sprain;

Shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel;

Go sour or spoil;

Accomplish by rotating;

Get by buying and selling;

Cause to move along an axis or into a new direction;

Channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something;

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;

Alter the functioning or setting of;

Direct at someone;

Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to;

Become officially one year older;