miss vs study

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. 

study

verb
  • To endeavor diligently; to be zealous. 

  • To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. 

  • To look at minutely. 

  • To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. 

  • To take a course or courses on a subject. 

  • To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder. 

noun
  • A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household. 

  • The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind. 

  • Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning. 

  • Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration. 

  • An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw. 

  • An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique. 

  • An academic publication. 

  • A piece for special practice; an étude. 

  • The act of studying or examining; examination. 

  • One who commits a theatrical part to memory. 

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