ghost
- Noun. (obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.
- Noun. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
- Noun. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
- Noun. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- 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.
- Noun. A ghostwriter.
- Noun. (context, paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.
- Noun. (internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- Noun. (computing) an image of a file or hard disk.
- Verb. (transitive) To haunt.
- Verb. (ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.
- Verb. (computing) to copy a file or hard drive image.
- Verb. (rfdef, lang en) .
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