find vs miss

find

verb
  • To gain, as the object of desire or effort. 

  • To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that. 

  • To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into. 

  • To discover game. 

  • To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. 

  • To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. 

  • To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish. 

  • To determine or judge. 

  • To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. 

  • To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. 

  • Locate on behalf of another 

  • To point out. 

noun
  • The act of finding. 

  • Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. 

miss

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. 

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