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missing
  • (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Miss.
  • (v.i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

verb

  • Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.
    • usage: "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
  • Feel or suffer from the lack of.
    • usage: "He misses his mother"
  • Fail to attend an event or activity.
    • usage: "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
  • Leave undone or leave out.
    • usage: "How could I miss that typo"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
  • Fail to reach or get to.
    • usage: "She missed her train"
  • Be without.
    • usage: "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box"
  • Fail to reach.
    • usage: "The arrow missed the target"
  • Be absent.
    • usage: "The child had been missing for a week"
  • Fail to experience.
    • usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

adjective

  • Not able to be found.
    • usage: "missing in action"; "a missing person"
  • Nonexistent.
    • usage: "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) A casualty status for which the United States Code provides statutory guidance concerning missing members of the Military Services. Excluded are personnel who are in an absent without leave, deserter, or dropped-from-rolls status. A person declared missing is categorized as follows. a. beleaguered--The casualty is a member of an organized element that has been surrounded by a hostile force to prevent escape of its members. b. captured--The casualty has been seized as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country. c. detained--The casualty is prevented from proceeding or is restrained in custody for alleged violation of international law or other reason claimed by the government or group under which the person is being held. d. interned--The casualty is definitely known to have been taken into custody of a nonbelligerent foreign power as the result of and for reasons arising out of any armed conflict in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged. e. missing--The casualty is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown. f. missing in action--The casualty is a hostile casualty, other than the victim of a terrorist activity, who is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown. Also called MIA. See also casualty category; casualty status.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
error

noun

  • A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
    • usage: "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
  • Inadvertent incorrectness.
  • A misconception resulting from incorrect information.
  • Baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed.
  • Departure from what is ethically acceptable.
  • Computer science. ( the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer)
  • Part of a statement that is not correct.
    • usage: "the book was full of errors"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Error is a mistake in terms of quantity, type of order, side of market (purchase or sale), security, or other condition of a trade.

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