Difference between Miss and Escape

What is the difference between Miss and Escape?

Miss as a verb is to fail to hit. while Escape as a verb is to get free, to free oneself.

Miss

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fail to hit. To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret. To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception. To fail to attend. To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline etc).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A failure to hit. A failure to obtain or accomplish. An act of avoidance. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. An unmarried woman; a girl.

Example sentence: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Escape

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To get free, to free oneself.To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.To cause (a single character) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the Esc key) or combination of keys

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)A successful shot from a snooker position.

Example sentence: Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

We hope you now know whether to use Miss or Escape in your sentence.

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