miss-, -miss, -mis-, -mit, -mitt-

1. Something left out, not done, or neglected: "An important omission in a report."
2. Something omitted or neglected.
3. The act or an instance of omitting.
4. The state of having been omitted.

1. To fail to include or mention someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally; as to omit a word.
2. To fail to do something, either deliberately or accidentally.
3. To pass over; neglect.
4. To desist or fail in doing; to forbear.

To set a fox to keep the geese.

Don't get a fox to guard the geese [or chickens, ducks, etc.].

1. That which may be permitted; especially, according to some existing rule: "He made a permissible tax deduction."
2. Anything which may be accepted or conceded as being correct, possible, or considered.

1. The act of permitting someone to do something.
2. Consent, especially formal consent; authorization.

The following nouns indicate approval for a course of action that is granted by someone in authority:

• He was refused permission to smoke anywhere in the building.
• They were seeking authorization to begin construction of their house.
• The parents gave their consent for the marriage to take place.
• The student will ask leave to respond to the speaker of the lecture.
• The foreign refugees were given license to depart from the city.
• The authorities gave sanction for the project to begin tomorrow.

1. Granting or inclined or able to grant permission.
2. Not strict in discipline; tolerant or lenient.
3. Permitting discretion; optional; indulgent, lenient, lax.

Artificially induced hypercapnia (more than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome or respiratory failure.

Done to lower the inspiratory pressure and tidal volume and the possibility of lung injury.

1. A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior.
2. A tendency or inclination to grant permission; tolerant or lenient.

1. To allow the doing of (something); consent to: "The restaurant will permit smoking only in a separate room away from the main dining room."
2. To grant consent or leave to (someone); to authorize: "She permitted him to explain."
3. To afford n opportunity or the possibility for doing something: "The weather may permit sailing."

1. A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.
2. In logic: One of the propositions in a deductive argument; either the major or the minor proposition of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
3. The preliminary or explanatory statements or facts (premises) of a document, as in a deed.
4. Land and the buildings on it; a building or part of a building (premises).
5. To state in advance as an introduction or explanation.
6. To state or assume as a proposition in an argument.
7. Etymology: from Middle English premisse, from Old French which came from Medieval Latin praemissa (propositio), "the proposition" or "put before"; from Latin, feminine, past participle of praemittere, "to set in front"; prae- or pre-, "before" + mittere, "to send".

The act or an instance of pretermitting; omission.

1. To let pass without mention or notice; to omit.
2 To leave undone; to neglect.
3 To suspend, break off.

1. A declaration assuring that one will or will not do something; a vow.
2. Indication of something favorable to come; expectation: "a promise of spring in the air".
3. Indication of future excellence or success: "a player of great promise".
4. To commit oneself by a promise to do or give; to pledge: "left but promised to return".
5. To afford a basis for expecting: "thunderclouds that promise rain".
6. From Latin promissum, "a promise"; past participle of promittere "send forth, foretell, promise" from pro- "before" plus mittere "to put, to send".