missing

Plural

missings

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.present participle and gerund of miss

   • Several of the reports were missing.
   • There is a page missing.
   • I must be missing something.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.

   • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

2. 2.Not present when it (they) should be.

   • Joe went missing last year. He had all teeth missing when he was finally found.
   • We've got some flatware missing - There seem to be some cooking utensils missing too!
   • How likely is it that all the people who are described as missing are living together in a small town somewhere?

3. 3.Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A value that is missing.

   • The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.
   • Patterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.

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Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

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Academic

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Literature

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Word family

• miss
• sing