missing
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 →
2) A missing person or pet is lost and people are looking for it. tree →
3) Missing is also the -ing form of miss: not hitting, not catching, or feeling sad that someone is away. tree →
4) Noticing that someone or something is not there, such as an empty bed. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means lost or taken away. Nabal's property was not missing, so David's men had protected it. Interpretation: In Isaiah, the verse is read as saying that every word of God's prophecy will come true. Nothing will be left out. In the primary 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
- And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. (Prophets 1SA.25.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read; no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for My mouth it hath commanded, and the breath thereof it hath gathered them. (Prophets ISA.34.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Three puzzle pieces are missing. tree →
- Find the missing number: 5 + ? = 12. tree →
- The book has 10 missing pages. tree →
- How many cards are missing from the deck? tree →
- Our cat went missing, so we put up posters. tree →
- Fill in the missing word in each sentence. tree →
- I am missing my grandma, who lives far away. tree →
- He kept missing the ball at first. tree →
- “Hullo, where is John?” he asked, suddenly missing the third bed. tree →
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.
- What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.
- A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.
- Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient.
- Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «missing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.