ghost

(countable, uncountable)A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.

He believes in ghosts.

Đồng nghĩa: apparition, bogey, phantom, revenant, specter, spook

(archaic, countable, literary, uncountable)(Christianity, literary, chiefly archaic) A spirit; a human soul.

Đồng nghĩa: essence, soul, spirit, anima

(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

not a ghost of a chance

the ghost of an idea

Đồng nghĩa: glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, hint, inkling, phantom, spark, suggestion

(countable, uncountable)A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).

Đồng nghĩa: echo

(countable, uncountable)(cleaning) A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

Đồng nghĩa: shadow

(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)(writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.

I’ve written both as a ghost for experts and under my name.

(countable, uncountable)A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.

Before filling out this form, please visit the Pennsic Pre-Registration Page to create your account and enter your campers and ghosts [nonexistent campers one pays for to legitimately increase the size of one's allotted camping space].

(countable, uncountable)A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).

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

(countable, uncountable)(computing) A copy of a file or record.

Đồng nghĩa: backup

(countable, uncountable)(theater) An understudy.

(countable, uncountable)(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

Đồng nghĩa: spook, spy

(not comparable, slang)(African-American Vernacular, slang) In the form be ghost: not present or involved; absent, gone.

(literary, poetic, transitive)Of a disembodied soul: to appear (somewhere or to someone) in the form of an apparition; to haunt.

(literary, poetic, transitive)To imbue (something) with a ghost-like effect or hue.

(broadly, figuratively, transitive)To continuously cause (someone or something) trouble; specifically, to continuously be in the thoughts of (someone) in a disturbing manner; to perturb, to trouble.

(broadly, figuratively, slang, transitive)To kill (someone).

(broadly, figuratively, transitive)To gray out (a visual element) to indicate that it is unavailable.

(Internet, broadly, figuratively, transitive)To forcibly disconnect (an IRC user) who is using one's reserved nickname.

(broadly, figuratively, slang, transitive)To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, through text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.

(UK, broadly, figuratively, transitive)To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison, usually without first informing the prisoner.

(transitive)Synonym of ghostwrite (“to write (a literary work or speech), or produce (an artistic work)), in the place of someone”); also, to carry out (an artistic performance) in the place of someone.

Here's how it went: Larry Parks as elderly Al Jolson was watching Larry Parks playing young Al Jolson in the first movie — in other words, Parks ghosting for Parks. At the same time, Jolson himself was ghosting the voices for both of them.

Đồng nghĩa: ghostwrite

(intransitive)To appear suddenly or move like a disembodied soul; specifically (often sports); also (transitive, dated) followed by the dummy subject it: to move easily and quietly without anyone noticing; to slip.

(intransitive)Followed by for: synonym of ghostwrite (“to write a literary work or speech, or produce an artistic work, in the place of someone”); also, to carry out an artistic performance in the place of someone.

(intransitive)Of a sailing vessel: to sail seemingly with very little or no wind.