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# missed

«missed» in Mova's school dictionary: **you did not hit or catch something: He missed the ball** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past and past participle of miss: miss, misses, missed, missing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Missed means you did not hit or catch something: He missed the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#m1)

2) Missed means you were too late for something: I missed the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#m2)

3) Missed means you felt sad because someone or something was not there: I missed my mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#m3)

4) Missed means you did not see, hear or notice something, or you did not go to it: I missed the start of the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, «missed» can show a near escape (the arrow missed him) or sadness (she missed home). In maths: «missed 3 questions» means got 3 wrong or left them out; 20 questions with 3 missed means 17 right. In everyday life: missed school, a missed call. Phrases: missed out, missed the point, just missed, missed call.

### examples

- I missed the bus and walked to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x1)
- The ball missed the goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x2)
- I missed you when you were on holiday! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x3)
- She missed two days of school because she was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x4)
- He missed the last question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x5)
- You missed a spot when you were cleaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x6)
- The arrow just missed the target. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x7)
- I had a missed call from Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x8)
- But the geese missed their master at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/#x9)

### note

Pronounced «mist»: missed and mist are homophones. Do not confuse with «mist» (thin fog). «Missed out» means did not get a chance to do something. Maths: score = total – missed.

### In the corpora

- [The Mole «missed the surface altogether»; he grabbed the side of the boat, «and the next moment—Sploosh!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/22/)
- [And mistakes like reading «shop» as «sop» are normal: the child read the s and missed its partner h.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/15/)
- ["An oversight" means a mistake caused by carelessness, something someone forgot or missed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/9/)
- [Never run, push or play on stairs: going fast means a missed step turns into a tumble down many steps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/1-stairs/2/)
- [One bad mark does not decide who you are; look at what you missed and ask for help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «missed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.