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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MISS'ING, ppr. [from miss.] Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting.
1. a. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing.
For a time caught up to God, as once
Moses was in the mount, and missing long.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1530 absent; also lost <missing in action>

U.S. Military Dictionary

A casualty status for which the United States Code provides statutory guidance concerning missing members of the Military Services. Excluded are personnel who are in an absent without leave, deserter, or dropped-from-rolls status. A person declared missing is categorized as follows. a. beleaguered - The casualty is a member of an organized element that has been surrounded by a hostile force to prevent escape of its members. b. captured — The casualty has been seized as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country. c. detained — The casualty is prevented from proceeding or is restrained in custody for alleged violation of international law or other reason claimed by the government or group under which the person is being held. d. interned — The casualty is definitely known to have been taken into custody of a nonbelligerent foreign power as the result of and for reasons arising out of any armed conflict in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged. e. missing — The casualty is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown. f. missing in action — The casualty is a hostile casualty, other than the victim of a terrorist activity, who is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown. Also called MIA. See also casualty category; casualty status.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not in its place; lost. 2 (of a person) not yet traced or confirmed as alive but not known to be dead. 3 not present. Phrases and idioms: missing link 1 a thing lacking to complete a series. 2 a hypothetical intermediate type, esp. between humans and apes.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Miss 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 1913 Dictionary

Missing Miss"ing, a. [From Miss, v. i.] Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for. Neither was there aught missing unto them. --1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If something is missing, it is not in its usual place, and you cannot find it. It was only an hour or so later that I discovered that my gun was missing... The playing cards had gone missing. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 2. If a part of something is missing, it has been removed or has come off, and has not been replaced. Three buttons were missing from his shirt. ADJ 3. If you say that something is missing, you mean that it has not been included, and you think that it should have been. She had given me an incomplete list. One name was missing from it. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ from n 4. Someone who is missing cannot be found, and it is not known whether they are alive or dead. Five people died in the explosion and more than one thousand were injured. One person is still missing. ADJ • If a member of the armed forces is missing in action, they have not returned from a battle, their body has not been found, and they are not thought to have been captured. PHRASE: usu v-link PHR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Lost, wanting, absent.

Moby Thesaurus

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