English Dictionary

ghost

/ɡəʊst/

noun

(uncommon or dated) The spirit; the human soul. / The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death. / Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

I saw a ghost in the old abandoned house.

意味（1）

(uncommon or dated) The spirit; the human soul.

hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne.

意味（2）

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

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

意味（3）

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

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意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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.

There was less flicker, jitter was nonexistent, and the screen pattern had been rendered far more viewworthy, with ghosts being virtually suppressed.

意味（6）

A ghostwriter.

意味（7）

A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.

Some health systems are plagued by ghost and absent workers. Ghost workers are nonexistent, listed in the payroll, and paid, a clear sign of corruption.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

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

This will let you open a query with NickServ again so you can remove your “ghost” from the server: […]

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

(theater) An understudy.

意味（12）

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

意味（13）

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

Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.

意味（14）

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

This is also the case for some racing games (Super Mario Kart is a good example) that allow you to compete against your ghosts, which are precise recordings of your performance.

意味（15）

Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.

意味（16）

(quantum mechanics) An unphysical state in a gauge theory.

The proof is well known, and independent of the metric, but to make certain we prove it here also for the case when the state vector system of an operator contains multipole ghosts.

意味（17）

(attributive, linguistics, computing) A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.

彁 is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.

意味（18）

(countable) Clipping of ghost pepper.

Spicy or mild, lovely bells or scary ghosts, peppers belong in your garden. Not only are they delicious, they add a gorgeous pop of color to vegetable gardens. When starting pepper seeds, consider using a heat mat.

意味（19）

(uncountable) A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.

意味（20）

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

ghost slug

意味（21）

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

ghost ant

意味（22）

(attributive) Abandoned.

ghost town

意味（23）

(attributive) Remnant; the remains of a(n).

ghost cell

意味（24）

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

ghost cellphone vibration

意味（25）

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

ghost rocket

意味（26）

(attributive) Substitute.

ghost writer