miss vs pure

miss

verb
  • To fail to hit. 

  • 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; 

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. 

pure

verb
  • to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately 

noun
  • One who, or that which, is pure. 

adj
  • Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. 

  • Free of foreign material or pollutants. 

  • Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. 

  • Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science. 

  • Mere; that and that only. 

  • Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant. 

  • A lot of. 

  • Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. 

adv
  • to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. 

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