adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a button is missing
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Two of the buttons on the jacket were missing.
be missing in action (= used to say that a soldier has not returned after a battle and their body has not been found )
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A further 9,000 allied military personnel are still officially listed as missing in action.
missing link
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Could this be the missing link in the search for a cure for cancer?
missing person
report sb/sth missing/injured/killed
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The plane was reported missing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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Two divers were still missing south of St Abbs, and the lifeboat began a search for them.
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His father, David Ashworth, is wanted for questioning by murder squad detectives but yesterday he was still missing .
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Her father's body was still missing .
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Key pieces are, however, still missing .
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Bodies still missing after Hercules crash kills nine.
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A number of the mounting trays are still missing , especially the ones for the Standard Beam Approach boxes.
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Nevertheless, the identity of objects is still missing .
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Colin Anderson is still missing through suspension, and more bad news is that Owen Pickard is out injured.
■ NOUN
data
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It was therefore inadvisable to conduct statistical tests when missing data from some schools distorted the representativeness of the sample.
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The addition of subjects with missing data could, however, have changed the picture and made ethnicity a significant variable.
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The grey regions indicate either chromosome breaks or missing data .
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Comparison of age adjusted and fully adjusted rate ratios, however, were based only on subjects with no missing data .
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No special provision is made for missing data .
girl
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A photograph of the missing girl was displayed, looking wholly unlike Derek's single memory of her.
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From the local police came the story of the missing girl and boy.
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There can not be many missing girls of her class.
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So long as there was no hunt for a missing girl they had felt themselves reasonably safe.
link
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Here the missing link is frequently the directly observed contextual detail which is so crucial in anthropological field work.
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I have no doubt it would contain some valuable missing links and insights to the historian.
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This is meaningful conversation between missing links took place after a rapid.
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This uncharted section was finally penetrated after arduous effort in 1983 and the mystery of the missing link solved.
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Where there is a co-ordination problem the issuing of an authoritative directive can supply the missing link in the argument.
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Garau was the missing link who sold drugs to both Debbie Maxwell and to the shepherds.
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The grid diameter is 100-150m and the facilities involved are very simple paths, bridges and short missing links .
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The missing link is the shareholders.
man
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Presumably the Rolls was the car of the missing man .
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To begin with he asked after the whereabouts of each missing man .
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Bridget had seen the missing man on a Thursday.
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Two days afterwards the body of the missing man was found in the sea without marks of violence.
person
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First two cases I took were missing persons .
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Another missing person to look for, too.
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There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories, and treasures.
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All this time Bob Southwell had been appraising the place from the point of view of the missing person enquiry.
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Most missing person reports do not end in a murder.
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It fits nobody on their staff, or on their list of missing persons .
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Usually, presenter Jacques Pradel appeals for news of missing persons .
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The desk sergeant contacted Superintendent Misty Hayes and a missing person enquiry commenced.
word
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However, the number of missing words was unacceptably high in the mid-class case. 7.4.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be posted missing
the missing link
without missing a beat
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Cuomo answered the reporters' questions without missing a beat.
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They can present, explain, and deliver our solutions without missing a beat.
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Woody Harrelson came in for the late Nicholas Colasanto without missing a beat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A small sum of money went missing from the office last night.
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Can you spot the missing number in this series?
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Oh no! The last page is missing from the book!
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One of my earrings is missing - have you seen it?
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Police are 'very concerned' for the safety of a teenager who's been missing from home for three days.
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She's been missing for three days now, and we're very worried.
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Some of the puzzle pieces are missing .
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Suddenly he looked around and realized one of the children was missing .
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The baby was born with a finger missing .
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The man had reported his girlfriend missing three days after she disappeared.
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The painting, which has been missing for almost half a century, only turned up when the owner of the house died.
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There's a screw missing .
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Three buttons were missing from his shirt.
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Two pages were missing from my copy of the report.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A missing half wandered somewhere else, arriving much later.
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Even little boys have gone missing .
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She was surprised, and not a little worried, to find Petion missing .
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The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing , but he watched it through to the end.
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Therapeutic studies on intestinal M avium complex infection are missing and an effective therapy for cryptosporidiosis is not available at present.
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When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break, they found parts of the posts missing and broken.
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Windows missing and doors off the hinges.