missing

柯林斯詞典

1. ADJ If something is missing or has gone missing, it is not in its usual place, and you cannot find it. 找不到的
It was only an hour or so later that I discovered that my gun was missing. 也就是一個(gè)小時(shí)左右後，我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的槍不見了。
2. ADJ If a part of something is missing, it has been removed or has come off, and has not been replaced. 缺失的
Three buttons were missing from his shirt. 他的襯衫少了3顆紐釦。
3. ADJ If you say that something is missing, you mean that it has not been included, and you think that it should have been. 遺漏的
She had given me an incomplete list. One name was missing from it. 她給了我一份不全的名單，上麪漏掉了一個(gè)名字。
4. ADJ Someone who is missing cannot be found, and it is not known whether they are alive or dead. (人) 失蹤的
Five people died in the explosion and more than one thousand were injured. One person is still missing. 爆炸中5人喪生，一千多人受傷，還有1人失蹤。
5. PHRASE If a member of the armed forces is missing in action, they have not returned from a battle, their body has not been found, and they are not thought to have been captured. (士兵) 在戰(zhàn)鬭中失蹤的

The police have called off the search for the missing child until dawn tomorrow .
The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book .
A search party was sent out to look for the missing climbers .
All of the ship's crew are missing, believed dead .
This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.