missing
Use Missing in a sentence
ɪŋ adjective
1.
lacking, absent, or not found: a missing person.
2.
go missing, Chiefly British. to disappear; become lost: My keys have gone missing.
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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?
verb (used without object)
9.
to fail to hit something.
10.
to fail of effect or success; be unsuccessful.
noun
Verb phrases 11.
a failure to hit something.
12.
a failure of any kind.
13.
an omission.
14.
a misfire.
15.
miss out, Chiefly British. to omit; leave out.
16.
Idioms miss out on, to fail to take advantage of, experience, etc.: You missed out on a great opportunity.
17.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English missen, Old English missan; cognate with Old Frisian missa, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Old High German missen, Old Norse missa to fail to hit or reach
before 900; Middle English missen, Old English missan; cognate with Old Frisian missa, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Old High German missen, Old Norse missa to fail to hit or reach
Related forms
miss·a·ble, adjective
un·miss·a·ble, adjective
un·missed, adjective
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World English Dictionary
miss1 (mɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to fail to reach, hit, meet, find, or attain (some specified or implied aim, goal, target, etc) |
| 2. | (tr) to fail to attend or be present for: to miss a train; to miss an appointment |
| 3. | (tr) to fail to see, hear, understand, or perceive: to miss a point |
| 4. | (tr) to lose, overlook, or fail to take advantage of: to miss an opportunity |
| 5. | (tr) to leave out; omit: to miss an entry in a list |
| 6. | (tr) to discover or regret the loss or absence of: he missed his watch; she missed him |
| 7. | (tr) to escape or avoid (something, esp a danger), usually narrowly: he missed death by inches |
| 8. | miss the boat, miss the bus to lose an opportunity |
| —n | |
| 9. | a failure to reach, hit, meet, find, etc |
| 10. | informal give something a miss to avoid (something): give the lecture a miss; give the pudding a miss |
| [Old English missan (meaning: to fail to hit); related to Old High German missan, Old Norse missa] | |
| 'missable1 | |
| —adj | |
| miss2 (mɪs) | |
| —n | |
| informal an unmarried woman or girl, esp a schoolgirl | |
| [C17: shortened form of | |
| Miss (mɪs) | |
| —n | |
| a title of an unmarried woman or girl, usually used before the surname or sometimes alone in direct address | |
| [C17: shortened from | |
| missing (ˈmɪsɪŋ) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | not present; absent or lost |
| 2. | not able to be traced and not known to be dead: nine men were missing after the attack |
| 3. | go missing to become lost or disappear |
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Word Origin & History
miss
O.E. missan "fail to hit, fail in what was aimed at," influenced 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 mid-13c. Sense of "to escape, avoid" is from 1520s; that of "to perceive with regret the absence or loss of (something or someone)" is from late 15c. Sense of "to not be on time for" is from 1823; to miss the boat in the figurative sense of "be too late for" is from 1929, originally nautical slang. The noun meaning "a failure to hit or attain" is recorded from 1550s (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.
miss
"the term of honour to a young girl" [Johnson], shortened form of mistress. Earliest use (1645) is for "prostitute, concubine;" sense of "title for a young unmarried woman, girl" first recorded 1666. In the 1811 reprint of the slang dictionary, Miss Laycock is given as
an underworld euphemism for "the monosyllable."
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Example sentences
The missing ones are generally recovered in the annual round-ups, when the calves are branded.
Fourteen more people still remain missing, as search and rescue teams continue their efforts to find survivors.
They established security at the museum complex and, huddling with museum authorities, began an inventory of missing treasures.
It is also obvious that no one will be able to measure the missing connections strengths between those neurons.
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