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miss⋅ing

  [mis-ing]
Use Missing in a Sentence
–adjective
1. lacking, absent, or not found: a missing person.
—Idiom
2. go missing, Chiefly British. to disappear; become lost: My keys have gone missing.
Origin:
1520–30; miss 1 + -ing 2

miss

1  [mis]
–verb (used with object)
1. to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
2. to fail to encounter, meet, catch, etc.: to miss a train.
3. to fail to take advantage of: to miss a chance.
4. to fail to be present at or for: to miss a day of school.
5. to notice the absence or loss of: When did you first miss your wallet?
6. to regret the absence or loss of: I miss you all dreadfully.
7. to escape or avoid: He just missed being caught.
8. to fail to perceive or understand: to miss the point of a remark.
–verb (used without object)
9. to fail to hit something.
10. to fail of effect or success; be unsuccessful.
–noun
11. a failure to hit something.
12. a failure of any kind.
13. an omission.
14. a misfire.
—Verb phrases
15. miss out, Chiefly British. to omit; leave out.
16. miss out on, to fail to take advantage of, experience, etc.: You missed out on a great opportunity.
—Idiom
17. miss fire. fire (def. 52).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME missen, OE missan; c. OFris missa, MLG, MD, OHG missen, ON missa to fail to hit or reach

Related forms:
miss⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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miss 1   (mĭs)   
v.   missed, miss·ing, miss·es

v.   tr.

  1. To fail to hit, reach, catch, meet, or otherwise make contact with.

  2. To fail to perceive, understand, or experience: completely missed the point of the film.

  3. To fail to accomplish, achieve, or attain (a goal).

  4. To fail to attend or perform: never missed a day of work.

    1. To leave out; omit.

    2. To let go by; let slip: miss a chance.

  6. To escape or avoid: narrowly missed crashing into the tree.

  7. To discover the absence or loss of: I missed my book after getting off the bus.

  8. To feel the lack or loss of: Do you miss your family?

v.   intr.

  1. To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something: fired the final shot and missed again.

    1. To be unsuccessful; fail.

    2. To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine.

n.  

  1. A failure to hit, succeed, or find.

  2. The misfiring of an engine.


[Middle English missen, from Old English missan; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
miss·ing   (mĭs'ĭng)   
adj.  

    1. Not present; absent.

    2. Lost: a missing person; soldiers missing in action.

  2. Lacking; wanting: This book has 12 missing pages.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

miss  (v.)
O.E. missan "fail to hit, fail in what was aimed at," infl. by O.N. missa "to miss, to lack;" both from P.Gmc. *missjan "to go wrong" (cf. O.Fris. missa, M.Du. missen, Ger. missen "to miss, fail"), from *missa- "in a changed manner," hence "abnormally, wrongly," from PIE base *mei- "to change" (root of mis- (1); see mutable). Meaning "to fail to get what one wanted" is from c.1250. Sense of "to escape, avoid" is from 1526; that of "to perceive with regret the absence or loss of (something or someone)" is from 1470. Sense of "to not be on time for" is from 1823; to miss the boat in the fig. sense of "be too late for" is from 1929, originally nautical slang. The noun meaning "a failure to hit or attain" is recorded from 1555 (O.E. noun *miss meant "absence, loss"). To give something a miss "to abstain from, avoid" is from 1919. Phrase a miss is as good as a mile was originally, an inch, in a miss, is as good as an ell (see ell). To miss out (on) "fail to get" is from 1929. Missing link first attested 1851 in Lyell. Missing person is from 1876.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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