ALL meanings of ghost
ghost
G g - noun ghost spirit of dead person 1
- noun ghost sth from the past 1
- noun ghost trace 1
- transitive verb ghost ghostwrite: write on behalf of sb else 1
- intransitive verb ghost move stealthily 1
- noun ghost the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons. 1
- noun ghost a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self. 1
- noun ghost a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance. 1
- noun ghost (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being. 1
- noun ghost the principle of life; soul; spirit. 1
- noun ghost Informal. ghost writer. 1
- noun ghost a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver. 1
- noun ghost Also called ghost image. Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens. 1
- noun ghost an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word. 1
- noun ghost Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines. 1
- noun ghost Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities. 1
- noun ghost a red blood cell having no hemoglobin. 1
- noun ghost a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes: Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts. 1
- verb with object ghost to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.). 1
- verb with object ghost to haunt. 1
- verb with object ghost Engraving. to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving. 1
- verb with object ghost Informal. to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me. to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye: My friend ghosted my birthday party. 1
- verb with object ghost Digital Technology. to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster. 1
- verb without object ghost to ghostwrite. 1
- verb without object ghost to go about or move like a ghost. 1
- verb without object ghost (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind. 1
- verb without object ghost to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds. 1
- verb without object ghost Informal. to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: They dated for a month and then she ghosted. to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye: I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost. 1
- verb without object ghost Digital Technology. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster. 1
- adjective ghost fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud: We were making contributions to a ghost company. 1
- idioms ghost give up the ghost, to die. to cease to function or exist. 1
- noun ghost An apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. 1
- noun Technical meaning of ghost (chat) (Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on IRC and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated (properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the network at large) believes the connection is still active and belongs to a real user. Compare clonebot. 1
- countable noun ghost A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel. 0
- countable noun ghost The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it. 0
- singular noun ghost If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists. 0
- verb ghost If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work. 0
- noun ghost the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom 0
- noun ghost a haunting memory 0
- noun ghost a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer 0
- noun ghost the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost) 0
- noun ghost a faint secondary image produced by an optical system 0
- noun ghost a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver 0
- noun ghost an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists 0
- noun ghost another name for ghostwriter 0
- noun ghost falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained 0
- verb ghost to haunt 0
- verb ghost to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed 0
- verb ghost to end a romantic relationship with (a person) by not responding to his or her attempts to communicate 0
- noun ghost the spirit or soul: now only in give up the ghost (to die) and in Holy Ghost 0