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mis

 

  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mis  \Mis\,  a.  &  adv  [See  {Amiss}.] 
  Wrong  amiss.  [Obs.]  ``To  correcten  that  [which]  is  mis.'' 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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[=i]dan,  AS  m[=i]?an  (????.  Cf  {Miss} 
  to  fail  of).  In  words  from  the  French,  fr  OF  mes-,  F. 
  m['e]-,  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mis 
  adj  :  (prefix)  bad  or  erroneous  or  lack  of  "the  prefix  `mis' 
  means  bad  in  `misdeeds',  erroneous  in  `misunderstand', 
  and  lacking  in  `mistrust'" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  MIS 
 
  {Management  Information  System} 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  MIS 
  Management  Information  System




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