determination vs miss

determination

noun
  • Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion. 

  • The act of determining, or the state of being determined. 

  • The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification 

  • The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents. 

  • A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part 

  • The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy. 

  • The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent. 

  • Bringing to an end; termination; limit. 

  • The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc. 

  • The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness. 

  • That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. 

miss

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • An unmarried woman; a girl. 

  • 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 determination and miss occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )