hit-and-ˈmiss

  • 51hit or miss — not planned carefully and as likely to be bad as to be good. Hiring has often been hit or miss – we never really knew whether a person was qualified until after they started working here …

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  • 52Hit-or-miss transform — In mathematical morphology, hit or miss transform is an operation that detects a given configuration (or pattern) in a binary image, using the morphological erosion operator and a pair of disjoint structuring elements. The result of the hit or… …

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  • 53hit-or-miss — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. haphazard, chance, random, trial and error. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. random, haphazard, careless, inaccurate, luck of the draw, trial and error, casual. ANT.: precise, accurate III (Roget s… …

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  • 54hit — ► VERB (hitting; past and past part. hit) 1) direct a blow at (someone or something) with one s hand or a tool or weapon. 2) propel (a ball) with a bat, racket, etc. 3) accidentally strike (part of one s body) against something. 4) (of a moving… …

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  • 55Miss Guided — Genre Situation comedy Created by Caroline Williams Starring Judy Greer Brooke Burns Earl Billings Kristoffer Polaha Chris Parnell …

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  • 56The Devil and Miss Prym — Infobox Book | name = The Devil and Miss Prym title orig = O Demônio e a srta Prym translator = image caption = author = Paulo Coelho illustrator = cover artist = country = Brazil language = Portuguese series = genre = Novel publisher = release… …

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  • 57Mr. Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous) — was a 1997 hit from artists, Smoke City. Categories: 1997 singles …

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  • 58miss — miss1 W2S1 [mıs] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not do something/fail to do something)¦ 2¦(not hit/catch)¦ 3¦(feel sad about somebody)¦ 4¦(feel sad about something)¦ 5¦(too late)¦ 6 miss a chance/opportunity 7¦(not see/hear)¦ 8 miss the point 9 something is not to …

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  • 59miss — 1 /mIs/ verb NOT DO STH/FAIL TO DO STH 1 (T) to not go somewhere or do something, especially when you want to but cannot: I m really hungry. I missed breakfast. | Donna had to miss a week of school because of chickenpox. 2 NOT HIT/GET HOLD OF (I …

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  • 60miss — I [[t]mɪ̱s[/t]] USED AS A TITLE OR A FORM OF ADDRESS ♦ Miss Misses (Please look at category 5 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) N TITLE You use Miss in front of the name of a girl or unmarried woman …

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