ghost

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.
  2. Noun.  The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
  3. Noun.  Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
  4. Noun.  A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
  5. Noun.  An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
  6. Noun.  A ghostwriter.
  7. Noun.  (context, paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.
  8. Noun.  (internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
  9. Noun.  (computing) an image of a file or hard disk.
  10. Verb.  (transitive) To haunt.
  11. Verb.  (ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.
  12. Verb.  (computing) to copy a file or hard drive image.
  13. Verb.  (rfdef, lang en) .

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.