gather vs miss

gather

verb
  • To gain; to win. 

  • To grow gradually larger by accretion. 

  • To bring stitches closer together. 

  • To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 

  • To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 

  • To haul in; to take up. 

  • To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 

  • To congregate, or assemble. 

  • Especially, to harvest food. 

  • To collect; normally separate things. 

  • To bring parts of a whole closer. 

  • To be filled with pus 

  • To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. 

  • To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue. 

noun
  • The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). 

  • A gathering. 

  • The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 

  • A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 

  • A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 

miss

verb
  • To fail to achieve or attain. 

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