dig vs miss

dig

verb
  • To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball 

  • To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. 

  • To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. 

  • To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. 

  • To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up. 

  • To thrust; to poke. 

noun
  • Digoxin. 

  • A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team. 

  • A cutting, sarcastic remark. 

  • An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. 

  • A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand. 

  • A thrust; a poke. 

  • The occupation of digging for gold. 

  • An innings. 

miss

verb
  • To fail to help the hand of a player. 

  • 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 avoid; to escape. 

  • To fail to achieve or attain. 

  • To fail to understand; 

  • To fail to hit. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • A kept woman; a mistress. 

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