contact vs miss

contact

noun
  • Contact juggling. 

  • The act of touching physically; being in close association. 

  • The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact. 

  • The establishment of communication (with). 

  • A contact lens. 

  • The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. 

  • A device designed for repetitive connections. 

  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else. 

  • Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication. 

verb
  • To establish communication with something or someone. 

  • To touch; to come into physical contact with. 

miss

noun
  • In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player. 

  • A failure to obtain or accomplish. 

  • The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded. 

  • A failure to hit. 

  • A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. 

  • An unmarried woman; a girl. 

  • An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give) 

  • A kept woman; a mistress. 

verb
  • To be wanting; to lack something that should be present. 

  • To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook. 

  • To fail to attend. 

  • To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). 

  • To fail to score (a goal). 

  • To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable. 

  • To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret. 

  • To fail to help the hand of a player. 

  • To avoid; to escape. 

  • To fail to achieve or attain. 

  • To fail to understand; 

  • To fail to hit. 

How often have the words contact and miss occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )