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# missing

«missing» in Mova's school dictionary: **not there, lost, or not yet found** — 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

adjective (missing); verb (-ing form of miss)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Missing means not there, lost, or not yet found. If one sock is missing, you cannot find it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#m1)

2) A missing person or pet is lost and people are looking for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#m2)

3) Missing is also the -ing form of miss: not hitting, not catching, or feeling sad that someone is away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#m3)

4) Noticing that someone or something is not there, such as an empty bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a lost or unknown part: missing pieces, missing pages, a missing number in a sum; in everyday life lost things and missing-pet posters; in stories a mystery often starts when something goes missing; phrases «go missing», «fill in the missing word», «missing you»

### examples

- Three puzzle pieces are missing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x1)
- Find the missing number: 5 + ? = 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x2)
- The book has 10 missing pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x3)
- How many cards are missing from the deck? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x4)
- Our cat went missing, so we put up posters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x5)
- Fill in the missing word in each sentence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x6)
- I am missing my grandma, who lives far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x7)
- He kept missing the ball at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x8)
- “Hullo, where is John?” he asked, suddenly missing the third bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/missing/#x9)

### note

Points to the unknown: often missing = whole − what is there. In «5 + ? = 12» you subtract to find it. Trap: the missing number in a sum is found by taking away, not by adding. Safety: if a child is missing or lost, tell a trusted adult or the police at once.

### In the corpora

- [A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/18/)
- [What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/3/)
- [A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/7/)
- [Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/16/)
- [Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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