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De - Pt| English Dictionary: MIS | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for MIS | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mis- \Mis-\ [In words of Teutonic origin, fr. AS. mis-; akin to D. mis-, G. miss-, OHG. missa-, missi-, Icel. & Dan. mis-, Sw. miss-, Goth. missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of G. meiden to shun, OHG. m[c6]dan, AS. m[c6][?]an ([?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Miss} to fail of). In words from the French, fr. OF. mes-, F. m[82]-, mes-, fr. L. minus less (see {Minus}). In present usage these two prefixes are commonly confounded.] A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mis \Mis\, a. & adv. [See {Amiss}.] Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] [bd]To correcten that [which] is mis.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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MIS {Management Information System} | |
