Meaning of ghost | Babel Free

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1. A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death
2. A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
   countable, uncountable
3. A spirit; a human soul.
   archaic, countable, literary, uncountable
4. A spirit; a human soul
5. give up the ghost, a. to die.
6. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
7. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image
8. Informal. To write for and credit authorship to another:ghostwrite.
9. A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen)
10. A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
    countable, uncountable
11. a spirit, usually of a dead person. Do you believe in ghosts?; Hamlet thought he saw his father's ghost. spook شَبَح призрак fantasma duch der Geist ånd; spøgelse φάντασμαfantasma vaim, tont روح aave fantôme רוח רפאים भूत duh, prikaza szellem hantu draugur, afturganga fantasma 幽霊 유령 dvasia, šmėkla, vaiduoklis parādība; rēgs; spoks hantu spookspøkelse, gjenferdduch شبح، روح، دمړه اروا( وائى چې دژوندى جسم په توګه څرګنديږى fantasma fantomă привидение duch duh duh spöke, vålnad ผี hayalet 鬼魂 прив...
    usually
12. A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti
13. A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
    countable, uncountable
14. of or like a ghost or ghosts. a ghostly figure. spookagtige شَبَحي призрачен fantasmagórico přízračný geisterhaft åndelig; spøgelsesagtig; spøgelses- που μοιάζει με φάντασμα fantasmagórico tontlik روح مانند aavemainen fantomatique של רוח רפאים प्रेतरूपी poput duha kísérteties seperti hantu draugalegur spettrale 幽霊のような 유령 같은 vaiduokliškas, šmėkliškas rēgains; spokains seperti hantu spookachtigspøkelsesaktig upiorny دارواپه ډول fantasmal fantomatic похожий на привидение hrôzostrašný kot duh sab...
15. Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
16. to die. die gees gee يَموت умирам morrer vypustit duši den Geist aufgeben opgive ånden παραδίδω το πνεύμα entregar el alma hinge heitma مردن menettää henkensä rendre l'âme למות मरना ispustiti dušu kileheli a lelkét mati draugalega rendere l'anima 死ぬ 죽다 paskutinį kvapą išleisti izlaist garu; nomirt mati de geest geven oppgi ånden, dø wyzionąć ducha مړ کیدل morrer a muri испустить дух vypustiť dušu izdihniti umreti ge upp andan ยอมตาย ölmek, can vermek 死 померти متوفی ہو جانا chết 死
17. A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
    countable, uncountable
18. The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.
19. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).
    countable, uncountable
20. A person's spirit or soul: was sick for months and finally gave up the ghost.
21. An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
    Internet, countable, uncountable
22. A returning or haunting memory or image.
23. A copy of a file or record.
    countable, uncountable
24. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile.
25. An understudy.
    countable, uncountable
26. A faint, unwanted image, as: a. An unwanted image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.
27. A covert (and deniable) agent.
    countable, uncountable
28. An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
    countable, uncountable
29. Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person.
    countable, uncountable
30. An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
    countable, uncountable
31. A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
32. Ellipsis of ghost pepper.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis
33. A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
    capitalized, often, uncountable
34. White or pale.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
35. Transparent or translucent.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
36. Abandoned.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
37. Remnant; remains.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
38. Perceived or listed but not real.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
39. Of a cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
40. Substitute.
    attributive, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.”

“He believes in ghosts.”

“The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.”

“I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost”

“For a moment I was puzzled, but presently, of course, it struck me that he must have seen Ayesha, wrapped in her grave-like garment, and been deceived by the extraordinary undulating smoothness of her walk into a belief that she was a white ghost gliding towards him.”

“Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.”

“hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne.”

“Enlightening the eyes and a taste for hope, emotions are felt from an inward ghost.”

“If I thought that “I” referred to my inner ghost, I wouldn't be worried because a bullet can't hurt a ghost, and equally there would be no point in your shooting.”

“It also required four years of finding your inner ghost and becoming one with it. The inner ghost is within every person who is still alive.”

“not a ghost of a chance”

“the ghost of an idea”

“And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”

“Armistead Maupin's novels reflect more awareness of, and affection for, the texture of real life than As If After Sex. Maupin's characters may get into cartoonlike adventures, but they are real people. Torchia's characters do drearily familiar things, but they are ghosts.”

“Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.”

“[…] She barely answers his questions. She’s a ghost of herself. And then Hot Pie gives us the key to Arya’s whole thing this season so far: She didn’t know that Jon had defeated the Boltons.”

“There was less flicker, jitter was nonexistent, and the screen pattern had been rendered far more viewworthy, with ghosts being virtually suppressed.”

“Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.”

“I’ve written both as a ghost for experts and under my name.”

“Some health systems are plagued by "ghost" and "absent" workers. Ghost workers are nonexistent, listed in the payroll, and paid, a clear sign of corruption.”

“1,500 secondary schools in Jiangxi found 125 cases of illegally collected Ghosts and Absentees fees worth $2 million.”

“Before filling out this form, please visit the Pennsic Pre-Registration Page to create your account and enter your campers and ghosts [nonexistent campers one pays for to legitimately increase the size of one's allotted camping space].”

“This will let you open a query with NickServ again so you can remove your “ghost” from the server: […]”

“This is also the case for some racing games (Super Mario Kart is a good example) that allow you to compete against your ghosts, which are precise recordings of your performance.”

“"[…]no record of a Robert, or Bobby, Maclain that fits our man's description," Kuzbec said. "No social, no driver's license, no address, no military service record. He's a ghost." Kirov did find that interesting.”

“"He's a ghost. No record of any kind, anywhere. I got nothing when I did a trace. I'm thinking he was either erased or he's something we don't know about." Nyk rubbed at his jaw. "If he was erased, Syn, he'd have a record[…]"”

“The proof is well known, and independent of the metric, but to make certain we prove it here also for the case when the state vector system of an operator contains multipole^([sic]) ghosts.”

“Soon after, the proof of the No-Ghost Theorem, establishing that the DRM has no ghosts if d ≤ 26, was achieved independently by Brower (1972) and by Goddard and Thorn (1972).”

“彁 is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.”

“Spicy or mild, lovely bells or scary ghosts, peppers belong in your garden. Not only are they delicious, they add a gorgeous pop of color to vegetable gardens. When starting pepper seeds, consider using a heat mat.”

“Fresh chili has a glossy smooth skin like a bell pepper...unless you're in scorching territory, with the likes of Ghosts or Reapers (their name should give the game away), where the skin looks [wrinkled].”

“GHOST. This is a spelling game. A person gives a letter, […] his next neighbor must think of a word beginning with this letter, and then say the second letter, […]”

“[…]word is, you win the round. But be warned : if she does have a real word in mind, you lose. Bluffing[:] It's possible to bluff in Ghost. For example, you can pretend to add a suffix to a word, even if that word doesn't exist. If no[…]”

“[…]played ghost, which was a popular word game at that time. Ghost was a very convenient game since it required no props, lights, or space. Each player must add a letter to the continuous formation of a word supplied by the previous player[…]”

“[…]played ghost, a word game. For quite a while, I spent most of my time at their house. I can't remember why I lived with them or exactly where my mother and my older brothers, Ben and John, were after Dad left.[…]”

“Another game in which your phonotactic instincts are brought to bear is "Ghost," a good car game for spelling geeks. In Ghost, players take turns adding a letter to a string of letters. The letter added must create the beginning of a correctly spelled word, but you don't want to add a letter which will complete[…]”

“ghost slug”

“ghost flower”

“ghost ant”

“ghost catfish”

“ghost town”

“ghost ship”

“ghost apples (a thin layer of ice in the shape of an apple, which forms around it and is left behind when the apple rots and falls out)”

“ghost fossils (impressions of things like shells that remain in the rock after the shell etc dissolves)”

“ghost cell”

“ghost craters (craters that have been filled, e.g. with volcanic deposits)”

“ghost image”

“ghost cellphone vibration”

“ghost pain”

“ghost island”

“ghost voter”

“ghost job”

“ghost rocket”

“ghost deer”

“ghost writer”

“ghost singer”

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