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G0112700 (gōst) n. 1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations. 2. A person's spirit or soul: was sick for months and finally gave up the ghost. 3. A returning or haunting memory or image. 4. a. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile. b. The tiniest bit: not a ghost of a chance. 5. A faint, unwanted image, as: a. An unwanted image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves. b. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera. c. An unwanted spectral line caused by imperfections in a diffraction grating. d. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass. 6. Informal A ghostwriter. 7. a. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies. b. A fictitious employee or business. 8. Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin. v. ghost·ed, ghost·ing, ghosts v. intr. 1. Informal To engage in ghostwriting. 2. To move noiselessly like a ghost: "Two young deer ghosted out of the woods" (Nancy M. Debevoise). 3. Informal To cut off all communication with someone, especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation: ghosted on him after two dates. v. tr. 1. To haunt. 2. Informal To ghostwrite: was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive. 3. Informal To cut off all communication with (someone), especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation: "In some point in nearly every young millennial's life, they will be ghosted. And not by sad dead bodies from the graveyard, but by idiot living ones from the Internet" (Heather Dockray).

[Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, breath, spirit.]

ghost′y adj.

ghost

(ɡəʊst) n1. the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom. 2. a haunting memory: the ghost of his former life rose up before him. 3. a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer: a ghost of a smile. 4. the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost)5. (General Physics) physics a. a faint secondary image produced by an optical systemb. a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver6. (Linguistics) See ghost word7. (Library Science & Bibliography) Also called: ghost edition an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists8. (Journalism & Publishing) another name for ghostwriter9. (modifier) falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained: a ghost worker. 10. give up the ghost a. to dieb. (of a machine) to stop workingvb11. (Journalism & Publishing) another word for ghostwrite12. (tr) to haunt13. (intr) to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed: he ghosted into the penalty area. [Old English gāst; related to Old Frisian jēst, Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit hēda fury, anger] ˈghostˌlike adj

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n. 1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined as wandering, often in vague or evanescent form, among the living and sometimes haunting them; wraith. 2. a mere shadow or semblance; trace: She's a ghost of her former self. 3. a remote possibility: not a ghost of a chance. 4. the principle of life; soul; spirit. 5. ghostwriter. 6. a secondary, usu. faint or blurry image, as on a television screen or on a photographic negative or print. v.t. 7. to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.). 8. to haunt. Idioms: give up the ghost, a. to die. b. to cease to function or exist. [before 900; Middle English goost, Old English gāst, c. Old Frisian gāst, Old Saxon gēst, Old High German geist spirit] ghost′like`, adj.

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Past participle: ghosted
Gerund: ghosting

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Present
I ghost
you ghost
he/she/it ghosts
we ghost
you ghost
they ghost

Preterite
I ghosted
you ghosted
he/she/it ghosted
we ghosted
you ghosted
they ghosted

Present Continuous
I am ghosting
you are ghosting
he/she/it is ghosting
we are ghosting
you are ghosting
they are ghosting

Present Perfect
I have ghosted
you have ghosted
he/she/it has ghosted
we have ghosted
you have ghosted
they have ghosted

Past Continuous
I was ghosting
you were ghosting
he/she/it was ghosting
we were ghosting
you were ghosting
they were ghosting

Past Perfect
I had ghosted
you had ghosted
he/she/it had ghosted
we had ghosted
you had ghosted
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Future
I will ghost
you will ghost
he/she/it will ghost
we will ghost
you will ghost
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Future Perfect
I will have ghosted
you will have ghosted
he/she/it will have ghosted
we will have ghosted
you will have ghosted
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Future Continuous
I will be ghosting
you will be ghosting
he/she/it will be ghosting
we will be ghosting
you will be ghosting
they will be ghosting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been ghosting
you have been ghosting
he/she/it has been ghosting
we have been ghosting
you have been ghosting
they have been ghosting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been ghosting
you will have been ghosting
he/she/it will have been ghosting
we will have been ghosting
you will have been ghosting
they will have been ghosting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been ghosting
you had been ghosting
he/she/it had been ghosting
we had been ghosting
you had been ghosting
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Conditional
I would ghost
you would ghost
he/she/it would ghost
we would ghost
you would ghost
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Past Conditional
I would have ghosted
you would have ghosted
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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ghost - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"specter, wraith, spectre, spook, shadefantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
	2.	ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone elseghostwriterauthor, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
	3.	ghost - the visible disembodied soul of a dead personpoltergeist - a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorderrevenant - someone who has returned from the deadsoul, psyche - the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
	4.	ghost - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"touch, traceproffer, proposition, suggestion - a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"
Verb	1.	ghost - move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
	2.	ghost - haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"obsess, hauntpreoccupy - engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; "His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"
	3.	ghost - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"ghostwriteauthorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"author - be the author of; "She authored this play"

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noun1. spirit, soul, phantom, spectre, spook (informal), apparition, wraith, shade (literary), revenant, phantasm The village is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.2. trace, shadow, suggestion, hint, suspicion, glimmer, semblance He gave the ghost of a smile.Related words
adjective spectral
fear phasmophobiaQuotations
"Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end" [Stanley Kubrick]
"Even the living were only ghosts in the making" [Pat Barker The Ghost Road]

ghost

noun1. A supernatural being, such as a ghost:apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant, wraith.Informal: spook.Regional: haunt.2. A slight amount or indication:breath, dash, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, touch, trace, whiff, whisper.Informal: whisker.verbInformal. To write for and credit authorship to another:ghostwrite.

Translations

鬼幽灵

ghost

(gəust) noun a spirit, usually of a dead person. Do you believe in ghosts?; Hamlet thought he saw his father's ghost. 幽灵，鬼 ˈghostly adjective of or like a ghost or ghosts. a ghostly figure. 鬼的，幽灵似的 give up the ghost to die. 死

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ghost:

see apparitionapparition,
spiritualistic manifestation of a person or object in which a form not actually present is seen with such intensity that belief in its reality is created. The ancient and widespread belief in apparitions and ghosts (specters of dead persons) is based on the idea that
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[Ger.,=knocking ghost], in spiritism, certain phenomena, such as rapping, movement of furniture, and breaking of crockery, for which there is no apparent scientific explanation.
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(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

A ghost is an apparition or vision of a spirit of the dead; “apparition” is the term preferred by parapsychologists. Ghosts are found in the folklore, art, and literature of all nations. Throughout England, there are haunted sites galore where numerous witnesses have seen a ghost or ghosts … single individuals to whole armies from the past. Houses, castles, gardens, woods, and crossroads are sites for these hauntings. Frederick W. H. Myers, founder of the Society for Psychical Research, defined a ghost as, “A manifestation of persistent personal energy, or as an indication that some kind of force is being exercised after death which is in some way connected with a person previously known on earth.”

It is not always the ghost of a deceased person which is witnessed. There are records of ghosts of animals and even of inanimate objects such as coaches, trains, and airplanes. It is said that a belief in ghosts grows out of the universal human need for some assurance of survival of death. Ancestor worship is one form of religious awareness that ties in with a belief in ghosts. In some areas, these ancestral ghosts take on the power of minor gods and it is felt that unless steps are taken to propitiate them, they can be harmful to the living. Generally speaking, however, ghosts are not able to harm the living. Their appearance may be frightening, especially in its unexpectedness, but there are virtually no records of actual physical hurt coming from an apparition.

Ghosts are seldom, if ever, floating sheeted figures of the cartoon variety. Some early forms were of the dead as they had been buried in their winding sheets, but the majority seem to appear much as they had in life, fully and appropriately clothed. Ghosts are occasionally harbingers of death. It is said that Josephine’s ghost appeared to Napoleon some days before he died, to signal his coming death, and a Black Friar supposedly appeared to members of Lord Byron’s family for the same reason. A phantom drummer—the once-young lover of the Lady Airlie—drums to signal an approaching death in the family of the Ogilvys, Earls of Airlie, Scotland.

Many ghosts seem to haunt particular places because of some tragedy or traumatic event that occurred to them either at death or just prior to it, while others are there because of extreme happiness known in those places. This signals the fact that the ghost is actually a spirit that either is unaware of its own death or is unwilling to admit to it. Many Spiritualist groups form what are called Rescue Circles, designed specifically to contact such spirits and to persuade them to move on, as they need to do.

Many ghosts and apparitions have been photographed. As with much in the general field of parapsychology and Spiritualism, it is easy to fake such photographs. However, there are a very large number of photographs that have been examined and verified by photographic experts. One example is the photograph taken by the vicar of Newby Church in Yorkshire, England, that shows a cowled figure standing to the right of the altar. The “Brown Lady of Raynham Hall” in England has been photographed descending the main staircase. A photograph taken of Isabella Houg of Newark, New Jersey, in 1922, showed an accompanying figure of her long dead uncle when the picture was developed. Mr. and Mrs. Chinnery of Ipswich, England, had been to visit the grave of Mrs. Chinnery’s deceased mother and, as they were preparing to leave, Mrs. Mabel Chinnery—on impulse—turned and took a photograph of her husband sitting in their family car. When the photograph was developed it showed the figure of her deceased mother sitting in the back seat of the car. All of these photographs have been proven not to have been faked. Rarely, however, is the ghost actually seen by the photographer. It is only on development of the picture that the apparition is discovered.

The psychical researcher Harry Price referred to Borley Rectory in Suffolk, as “the most haunted house in England.” For forty years Price investigated ghosts and hauntings. He founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, now part of the University of London. He claimed that the large nineteenth century house built by the Reverend Henry Bull in the 1860s was the scene of more ghostly activity than anywhere else. It certainly did have the ghost of a nun, a phantom coach, writing that appeared on walls, poltergeist activity, and more. At séances held by Price at the house, there were rappings, apparitions, and pebbles flying through the air, keys pushed out of locks, and a whole host of similar phenomena. Although the vast majority of reported ghost sightings can be explained away, a small percentage cannot.

Sources:

Guiley, Rosemary Ellen: The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. New York: Facts On File, 1992Myers, Frederick W. H.: Human Personality and Its Survival After Bodily Death. London: Longmans, 1903Price, Harry: The Most Haunted House in England. London: Longmans, Green, 1940Smyth, Frank: The Supernatural: Ghosts and Poltergeists. London: Aldus, 1975Steiger, Brad: Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 2003 Stemman, Roy: The Supernatural: Spirits and Spirit Worlds. London: Aldus, 1975Thurston, Rev. Herbert: Ghosts and Poltergeists. London: Regnery, 1950Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–1898)see Eglinton, William

What does it mean when you dream about a ghost?

Ghosts symbolize the essence of what no longer is obtainable (e.g., people sometimes believe they don’t have “a ghost of a chance”).

ghost

[gōst] (computer science) To display a menu option in a dimmed, fuzzy typeface to indicate that this option is no longer available. (ordnance) In passive detection, one of the intersection points of lines of position which do not represent actual targets but are only crossover points of multiple plotted lines of position from two or more detection stations. (petrology) The discernible outline of the shape of a former crystal or of another rock structure that has been partly obliterated and has as its boundaries inclusions, bubbles, or other foreign matter. Also known as phantom.

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Any extra blip on radar caused by reflection from obstructions like hills and buildings. Additional blips appear usually to the right of the primary blip at a distance proportional to the reflected and direct path lengths.

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Akakyevich, Akakiihis ghost steals coats off people’s backs. [Russ. Lit.: Gogol The Overcoat]Alfonsothe murdered prince returns as a ghost to frustrate the usurper and proclaim the true heir. [Br. Lit.: Walpole The Castle of Otranto in Magill I, 124]Alonzo the Braveappears as ghost to lover. [Br. Lit.: “Alonzo the Brave” in Walsh Modern, 14]Andreaghost returns to the Spanish court to learn of the events that followed his death. [Br. Drama: The Spanish Tragedy in Magill II, 990]Angels of Monsa spectral army of angels that supposedly came between German and British forces (1914). [Br. and Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 447]Banquohis ghost appears to Macbeth at a banquet, sitting in Macbeth’s own seat. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Macbeth]Bhtahaunter of cemeteries; attendant of Shiva. [Hindu Myth.: Parrinder, 45]Blithe Spiritghost of witty first wife returns to mock her husband and his second wife. [Br. Drama: Noel Coward Blithe Spirit in On Stage, 236]Caesar’s ghostwarns Brutus that he and Caesar will meet, again at Phillipi. [Br. Lit.: Shakespeare Julius Caesar]Canterville ghostafter haunting an English house for three centuries, disappeared forever when new American owners refused to take him seriously. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde “The Canterville Ghost”]Caspermeek little ghost who desires only to make friends. [Am. Comics: “Casper the Friendly Ghost” in Horn, 162]Devil and Daniel Webster, TheWebster defends his client before a jury of the ghosts of American villains. [Am. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 382]Drury Lane Theater Ghostsaid to bring great acting success to those who see it. [Br. Folklore: Wallechinsky, 446]Epworth Poltergeistsupposedly invaded the house of Rev. Samuel Wesley. [Am. Folklore: Wallechinsky, 446]Flying Dutchmanghost ship off Cape of Good Hope; sighting it forbodes disaster. [Folklore: Brewer Note-Book, 335]Ghost and Mrs. Muir, TheNew England cottage haunted by the spirit of its 19th-century owner. [Am. TV: Terrace]Ghost Goes West, Themerry Scottish ghost follows his castle when it is moved to America. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell]Ghost of Charles Rosmerthe itinerant peddler returns to the property where he was murdered. [Folklore: Wallechinsky, 446]Ghost of Christmas Pastthe Scrooge’s first monitor; spirit presenting past. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol]Ghost of Christmas Presentthe Scrooge’s second monitor; spirit presenting present. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol]Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, theScrooge’s third monitor; spirit presenting future. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol]Ghost of Hamlet’s Fatherthe appears to the prince, states he was murdered by Claudius and demands revenge. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]Ghost’s Walk, thespirit and step of Lady Morbury Dedlock. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House]Glas, Bodachghostly bearer of evil tidings. [Br. Lit.: Waverley]Headless Horseman, thephantom who scares Ichabod Crane out of his wits. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories]Homunculusformless spirit of learning. [Ger. Lit.: Faust]Kirby, George and Marianghosts who occupy Topper’s house. [TV: “Topper” in Terrace II, 381]Ligeiamonths after her own death and the narrator’s remarriage, she materializes upon the death of his second wife. [Am. Lit.: Poe Ligeia]Marleythe friendly ghost who helps Ebenezer Scrooge become more benevolent. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol]Mauthe Doogghostly black spaniel that haunted Peel Castle. [Br. Folklore: Benét, 649]Morland, Catherineterrified by imagined ghosts at the medieval abbey where she is a guest. [Br. Lit.: Northanger Abbey in Benét, 720]Nighe, Beanghost of a woman who died in childbirth. [Scot. Folklore: Briggs, 15–16]Phantom of the Opera, Thedeformed man haunts opera house for vengeance. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 562]Phantom, Themysterious, ghostlike foe of injustice in a mythical African-Asian country. [Am. Comics: Horn, 551]Quint, Peter and Miss Jesselformer lovers return to haunt house. [Am. Lit.: The Turn of the Screw]Richard IIIvisited by the ghosts of all his victims. [Br. Lit.: Shakespeare Richard III]Ruddigorethe ghosts of his ancestors confront the current baronet and change his life. [Br. Opera: Gilbert and Sullivan Ruddigore]Samuelhis spirit appears to Saul through the witch of Endor. [O.T.: I Samuel 28:24]Short Hoggers of Whittinghameghost of baby murdered by his mother cannot rest because he is “nameless.” [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 363–364]Topperhouse he purchases is haunted by the young couple who owned it previously and their dog. [Am. Lit., Cin., TV: Topper in Halliwell, 718]Vermilion Phantomghost rumored to have appeared at various times in French history, such as before deaths of Henry IV and Napoleon. [Fr. History: Wallechinsky, 445]White House Ghostseveral people supposedly saw Abraham Lincoln’s ghost there. [Am. Folklore: Wallechinsky, 447]White Ladyghost seen in different castles and palaces belonging to Prussia’s royal family. [Prussian Folklore: Brewer Hand-book, 1207]White Ladyof Avenel “a tutelary spirit.” [Br. Lit.: The Monastery, Brewer Handbook, 1208]White Ladyof Ireland the domestic spirit of a family; intimates approaching death with shrieks [Irish Folklore: Brewer Handbook, 1208]Wild Huntsmanspectral hunter with dogs who frequents the Black Forest. [Ger. Folklore: Brewer Handbook, 1207]

ghost

Physicsa. a faint secondary image produced by an optical system b. a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver

ghost

(chat)(Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on IRCand similar systems, left when the session has been terminated(properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or thenetwork at large) believes the connection is still active andbelongs to a real user.

Compare clonebot.

ghost

(1) See ghosted.

(2) A faint second image that appears close to the primary image on a CRT. A CRT ghost is an electronics synchronization problem.

(3) A faint second image that appears close to the primary image on a printout from a mechanical printer. It is caused by bouncing print elements as the paper passes by.

(4) A double image appearing in 3D shutter glasses due to synchronization issues. See 3D sync.

(5) To make an exact copy of an operating system or the contents of a hard disk for backup or for migrating to another computer. Aptly named, Norton Ghost is a popular utility that duplicates the contents of a hard drive. The program can also be used to copy failing disks, taking hours to complete the operation, because it has to re-read marginal sectors over and over. See ghosting server and cloning software.

(6) A secondary signal in a communications transmission that arrives ahead of or later than the primary signal.

Ghosts

(dreams)Some believe that the ghosts in their dreams are real representations of the dead. This is an unlikely explanation of this dream. More likely the ghost is representing a part of you that is unclear and that you do not understand. At times, ghosts represent those things that unattainable or fleeting. Demonic types of ghost images may represent your negative tendencies, unpleasant parts of your personality, or your “shadow.” Old superstition-based dream interpretations say that dreaming of friendly ghosts is a lucky omen, and that you should be receiving unexpected good luck. On the other hand, if you were very frightened by the ghost in your dream, then others will try to impose their will on you and you must be vigilant in order to stand up to it.

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noun spirit

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noun trace

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noun a supernatural being, such as a ghost

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noun a slight amount or indication

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verb to write for and credit authorship to another

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noun a mental representation of some haunting experience

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noun a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

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noun the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

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noun a suggestion of some quality

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verb move like a ghost

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verb haunt like a ghost

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verb write for someone else

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