Difference between Absent and Missing

ABSENT vs MISSING: NOUN

Nonexistent
To be running roughly due an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault
Not able to be located; gone; absent; lost.
Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Lacking; wanting.
Lost.
Not present; absent.
Not existing
Not able to be found

To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
To withhold from being present.
To keep (oneself) away.

Stay away or leave
Lost in thought
Showing preoccupation
Absent-minded (which see).
Not in a certain place at a given time; not in consciousness or thought at a certain time; away: opposed to present.
To make absent; take or keep away: now used only reflexively, but formerly sometimes otherwise, as by Milton: as, to absent one's self from home; he absented himself from the meeting.
Not existing; wanting; not forming a part or attribute of: as, among them refinement is absent; revenge is entirely absent from his mind.

Abstracted, Wanting, Away, Scatty, Remove, Gone, Absentminded, Inattentive, Awol, Truant, Departed, Nonexistent, Lacking, Missing, Devoid

Vanishing, Losing, Disappearing, Unavailable, Stolen, Whereabouts, Disappearance, Vanished, Unaccounted, Disappeared, Wanting, Nonexistent, Lacking, Lost, Absent

Abstracted, Wanting, Away, Scatty, Remove, Gone, Absentminded, Inattentive, Awol, Truant, Departed, Nonexistent, Lacking, Missing, Devoid

Vanishing, Losing, Disappearing, Unavailable, Stolen, Whereabouts, Disappearance, Vanished, Unaccounted, Disappeared, Wanting, Nonexistent, Lacking, Lost, Absent

Spanish Club meetings when the President is absent.
Carrier shall not be liable absent actual negligence.
What molecule was noticeably absent from early earth?
The bolsters common to hotel rooms were absent.
Separate juvenile facilities countrywide are still virtually absent.
Republicans and one Democrat absent or not voting.
In general, the same rules and procedures apply to combined absent voter counting boards that apply to other absent voter counting boards.
It is usually defined by the length of time an individual has been absent from work or is likely to be absent from work.
It simply states absent posterior tibial pulse or absent dorsalis pedis pulse.
Body roundish, skull bones extremely thin, subocular shelf absent; supramaxilla reduced or absent; uniquely modified extrascapular bone.

Water across a road may hide a missing segment of roadbed or a missing bridge.
Incorrect or missing insurance information, as well as missing emission checks, may cause your application to be rejected.
It was terribly scratched up, missing a motor, had snapped leg screws, and missing a power supply.
Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too.
There were very few missing data and the results are reported with missing data questionnaires excluded.
Evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
Computers can check for missing information and issue prompt if missing information is recognized.
However, Best Buy will process returns with open boxes, missing packaging, and missing accessories, representatives said.
The missing parameter defines how documents that are missing a value should be treated.
Masked arrays can only have missing numbers, not missing lists, so missing lists are expanded into lists of missing numbers.