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miss·ing    Audio Help   [mis-ing] Pronunciation Key
–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; miss1 + -ing2]
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miss 1    Audio Help   (mĭs)  Pronunciation Key 
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.]

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miss·ing    Audio Help   (mĭs'ĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
    1. Not present; absent.
    2. Lost: a missing person; soldiers missing in action.
  2. Lacking; wanting: This book has 12 missing pages.

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missing

adjective
1. not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person" 
2. nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking] 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
missing adjective
not in the usual place or not able to be found
Example: The child has been missing since Tuesday; I've found those missing papers.
Arabic: مَفْقود
Chinese (Simplified): 失踪的
Chinese (Traditional): 失蹤的
Czech: pohřešovaný
Danish: savnet; manglende
Dutch: vermist
Estonian: kadumaläinud
Finnish: kadonnut, puuttuva
French: disparu
German: vermißt, fehlend
Greek: αγνοούμενος, που έχει χαθεί
Hungarian: eltűnt
Icelandic: sem vantar; sem er saknað
Indonesian: hilang
Italian: scomparso, mancante
Japanese: 見つからない
Korean: 사라진, 분실한, 행방 불명의
Latvian: trūkstošs; pazudis
Lithuanian: dingęs, trūkstamas, pasigendamas
Norwegian: forsvunnet, borte vekk, fraværende
Polish: zaginiony, brakujący
Portuguese (Brazil): desaparecido
Portuguese (Portugal): desaparecido
Romanian: dispărut
Russian: потерявшийся
Slovak: stratený
Slovenian: pogrešan
Spanish: perdido, extraviado, desaparecido
Swedish: saknad, försvunnen
Turkish: kayıp
See also: go missing, miss, miss out, miss the boat

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Missing

Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Missed; p. pr. & vb. n. Missing.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [root]100. See Mis-, pref.]

1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.

When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. --Locke.

2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.

She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. --Prior.

We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. --Shak.

3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want. --Shak.

Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. --1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21.

What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. --Milton.

To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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