miss vs gal

miss and gal both are nouns.

miss is a verb but gal is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
miss	Yes	No	Yes	No
gal	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gal is a hyponym of miss; that is, gal is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than miss:

miss: a young female
gal: alliterative term for girl (or woman)

Other hyponyms of miss include belle, bimbo, chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke, chit, colleen, bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench, flapper, gamine, Gibson girl, jeune fille, lass, lassie, young girl, maid, maiden, May queen, queen of the May, mill-girl, party girl, peri, ring girl, rosebud, sex bomb, sex kitten, sexpot, shop girl, soubrette, sweater girl, hoyden, romp, tomboy, valley girl, working girl.

miss (noun)	gal (noun)
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)	alliterative term for girl (or woman)
a young female	United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
	a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)

miss (verb)	gal (verb)
leave undone or leave out
fail to experience
fail to reach
feel or suffer from the lack of
fail to reach or get to
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
be without
fail to attend an event or activity
be absent

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