Associations to the word «Ghost»

GHOST, noun. (rare) The spirit; the soul of man.

GHOST, noun. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

GHOST, noun. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.

GHOST, noun. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

GHOST, 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.

GHOST, noun. A ghostwriter.

GHOST, noun. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

GHOST, noun. (computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

GHOST, noun. (theater) An understudy.

GHOST, noun. (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

GHOST, noun. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

GHOST, noun. (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

GHOST, noun. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) (in names of species) White or pale.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) (in names of species) Transparent or translucent.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) Abandoned.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) The remains of.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

GHOST, noun. (attributive) Substitute.

GHOST, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

GHOST, verb. (obsolete) To die; to expire.

GHOST, verb. (ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

GHOST, verb. (nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

GHOST, verb. (computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

GHOST, verb. (GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

GHOST, verb. (internet) (transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

GHOST, verb. To appear without warning; To move quickly and quietly; to slip.

GHOST AT THE FEAST, noun. (idiomatic) A presence that mars one's enjoyment by causing guilt or reviving unwelcome memories.

GHOST BAND, noun. (sciences) Any spurious results clustered together, outside of normal expected ranges (as in a plot of recorded energy values, with an inexplicable blot, marring the clean expected results).

GHOST BAND, noun. (biology) A large band or stripe that appears on a developed gel as a wide halo with no specific, distinguishable signal. Ghost bands are a common problem in western blot analysis.

GHOST BAND, noun. (entertainment) Impersonators of a well-known band hired to perform while the real band members are elsewhere.

GHOST BANDS, noun. Plural of ghost band

GHOST CALL, noun. (telephony)A telephone call for which, when the recipient of the call answers, there is no one on the other end.

GHOST CALLS, noun. Plural of ghost call

GHOST CAR, noun. (Canada) An unmarked police car or an unmarked vehicle used as a decoy by police.

GHOST CARS, noun. Plural of ghost car

GHOST CRAB, noun. Any of several burrowing crabs, of the genus Ocypode, found along sandy shores.

GHOST CRABS, noun. Plural of ghost crab

GHOST DANCE, proper noun. A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.

GHOST FROG, noun. A group of frogs in the Heleophrynidae family, which live in mountain streams in South Africa.

GHOST GUM, noun. Any of various Australian evergreen trees of the genus Corymbia.

GHOST GUMS, noun. Plural of ghost gum

GHOST IMAGE, noun. (photography) any undesired image appearing at the image plane of an optical system; either a false image of the desired object, or an out-of-focus image of a bright source of light in the field of the optical system

GHOST IMAGE, noun. (computing) a copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup

GHOST IMAGES, noun. Plural of ghost image

GHOST IMAGING, noun. (computing) the process of creating a ghost image of all the contents of a hard drive as a backup that may be stored and later retrieved if needed

GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD, noun. A children's game, a form of tag in which the player designated as the ghost attempts to catch the others before they can reach base.

GHOST ISLAND, noun. (British) An area of road surface, marked with cross hatching, as a means of separating traffic, reducing speed, or to provide a safe area to turn right across approaching traffic

GHOST ISLANDS, noun. Plural of ghost island

GHOST LORE, noun. Alternative form of ghostlore

GHOST MARRIAGE, noun. Marriage with a dead person or between dead people.

GHOST MOTH, noun. Hepialus humuli, a white moth of the family Hepialidae.

GHOST NET, noun. A fishing net discarded or lost in the ocean, capable of entangling marine life below the surface.

GHOST NETS, noun. Plural of ghost net

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE, proper noun. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST, proper noun. A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him his past, especially certain events of past Christmases that contributed to his later distaste for Christmas.

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT, proper noun. A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge accompanied by a great feast in order to show him events of the current Christmas.

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME, proper noun. A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; it visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show his impending fate of death and loneliness in a future Christmas that is ultimately avoided.

GHOST ORCHID, noun. Dendrophylax lindenii, the American ghost orchid.

GHOST ORCHID, noun. Epipogium aphyllum, the Eurasian ghost orchid.

GHOST ORCHIDS, noun. Plural of ghost orchid

GHOST PEPPER, noun. Bhut jolokia

GHOST PEPPERS, noun. Plural of ghost pepper

GHOST PIECE, noun. A representation of where a piece will land if it falls without intervention (such as moving it away or rotating it) in the video game Tetris.

GHOST PIECES, noun. Plural of ghost piece

GHOST PLANT, noun. A white myco-heterotrophic herb, Monotropa uniflora, of the family Ericaceae.

GHOST POST, noun. A comment on a social networking website such as Facebook which was deleted, resulting in confusion.

GHOST PRISONER, noun. A prisoner not included in official prison records, and not reported to the Red Cross as a detainee.

GHOST PRISONERS, noun. Plural of ghost prisoner

GHOST RIDE, verb. Alternative form of ghost-ride

GHOST ROCKET, noun. (ufology) Rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

GHOST SHIP, noun. (nautical) An abandoned, possibly adrift ship (sea or space ship) that is haunted.

GHOST SHIPS, noun. Plural of ghost ship

GHOST SICKNESS, noun. A syndrome, reported to occur among Native Americans, in which the sufferer is preoccupied by the deceased. Symptoms include weakness, loss of appetite, recurring nightmares, and a pervasive feeling of terror.

GHOST SLUG, noun. Selenochlamys ysbryda, a predatory air-breathing land slug.

GHOST SLUGS, noun. Plural of ghost slug

GHOST STORIES, noun. Plural of ghost story

GHOST STORY, noun. A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.

GHOST SWIFT, noun. Ghost moth

GHOST TOWN, noun. A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity.

GHOST TOWN, noun. (figuratively) Anything that has been deserted or abandoned, or has been empty all along.

GHOST TOWN, noun. (Should we delete([1]) this sense?) An Internet forum that lacks active users.

GHOST TOWN, noun. (Should we delete([1]) this sense?) (Can we verify([2]) this sense?) Figurative. An artist who lacks a fan base.

GHOST TOWNS, noun. Plural of ghost town

GHOST TRAIN, noun. A fairground attraction in which participants ride through a haunted house in a railcar.

GHOST TRAIN, noun. (theater) An excursion done by many tourist railways around the world. Usually, a fictional story is created and performed with static displays or live actors on either side of a train. Actors and actresses play out a story on the long and narrow stage provided by the railcar aisles.

GHOST TRAIN, noun. (UK) A rail service which does not appear in the public timetables.

GHOST TRAIN, noun. (UK) A supernatural manifestation of a railway locomotive or passenger cars.

GHOST TRAIN, noun. An unmanned train rolling on the train line

GHOST TREE, noun. The dove tree, Davidia involucrata, which has large white bracts resembling white sheets like those used to represent ghosts.

GHOST TREES, noun. Plural of ghost tree

GHOST WORD, noun. A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless, that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference book, or has been listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation or a typographical error.

GHOST WORDS, noun. Plural of ghost word

GHOST WRITER, noun. One who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

GHOST WRITERS, noun. Plural of ghost writer

GHOST, noun. A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past".

GHOST, noun. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.

GHOST, noun. The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.

GHOST, noun. A suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face".

GHOST, verb. Move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard".

GHOST, verb. Haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her".

GHOST, verb. Write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?".