MISSING
lacking, absent, missing, wanting
(adjective) nonexistent; “the thumb is absent”; “her appetite was lacking”
missing
(adjective) not able to be found; “missing in action”; “a missing person”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
missing
present participle of miss
Adjective
missing (not comparable)
Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
Synonyms: absent, lost
Not present when it (they) should be.
Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
Noun
missing (plural missings)
(statistics) A value that is missing.
Anagrams
• missign
Source: Wiktionary
Miss"ing, a. Etym: [From Miss, v. i.]
Definition: 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.
MISS
Miss, n.; pl. Misses. Etym: [Contr. fr. mistress.]
1. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who
has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
Note: There is diversity of usage in the application of this title to
two or more persons of the same name. We may write either the Miss
Browns or the Misses Brown.
2. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and
misses. Cawthorn.
3. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4. [Obs.] Evelyn.
4. (Card Playing)
Definition: In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the
table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
Miss, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Missed; p.pr. & vb.n. Missing.] Etym: [AS.
missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista,
Dan. miste. *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.
Miss, v. i.
1. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon.
Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss,
or sweep but common souls away. Waller.
2. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them. Atterbury.
3. To go wrong; to err. [Obs.]
Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from
happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss Spenser.
4. To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See Missing, a.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Shak.
Miss, n.
1. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
2. Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.]
There will be no great miss of those which are lost. Locke.
3. Mistake; error; fault. Shak.
He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.
Ascham.
4. Harm from mistake. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition