ghost
suomi-englanti sanakirjaghost englannista suomeksi
olla haamukirjoittajana
aave
haamukirjoittaja
liikkua aaveen lailla
näyttäytyä kummituksena
haamu
sävy, vivahde
ghost englanniksi
A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
(syn)
(ux)
(RQ:Dryden Annus Mirabilis)
(quote-book)
(RQ:Haggard She)
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(quote-text)
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
(syn).
(RQ:Poe Raven)
(quote-journal)
(quote-journal) She barely answers his questions. She’s a ghost of herself. And then Hot Pie gives us the key to Arya’s whole thing this season so far: She didn’t know that Jon had defeated the Boltons.
A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. (rfv-sense)
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.
{{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Albert Abramson|title=The History of Television, 1942 to 2000|page=60
A ghostwriter.
A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
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A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See (m). (rfv-sense)
An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
{{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Paul Mutton|title=IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools|page=31
An understudy. (rfv-sense)
A covert (and deniable) agent.
A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person. (rfv-sense)
An unphysical state in a theory.
{{quote-text|en|year=1966|author=Kàzmèr L. Nagy|title=State Vector Spaces with Indefinite Metric in Quantum Field Theory|page=14
{{quote-book|en|year=2019|author=Radin Dardashti; Richard Dawid; Karim Thébault|title=Why Trust a Theory?|page=180
A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
(ux) is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.
(clipping of)
{{quote-book|en|date=2018-10-02|author=Julie Thompson-Adolf|title=Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers for Your Garden|publisher=Cool Springs Press|isbn=9780760360804|page=68
A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word. (rfv-sense)
White or (l).
Transparent or (l).
Remnant; remains of a(n).
Perceived or listed but not (l).
Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)
To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.
(RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)
To ghostwrite.
(RQ:Bellow Humboldt's Gift)
(quote-web)
To sail seemingly without wind.
{{quote-book|en|title=Unseen City|author=Nathanael Johnson|year=2016|ISBN=9781623363857|page=192
To out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
{{quote-text|en|year=1991|title=Amiga User Interface Style Guide|page=76
To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
{{quote-newsgroup|en|year=2001|author=Luke|title=to leave (vb.): Hurg OT|newsgroup=alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island
To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.
To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.
{{quote-text|en|year=2020|author=Jamie Bennett; Victoria Knight|title=Prisoners on Prison Films|page=26
To kill.
(quote-av)):”Tried to ‘ghost’ her?” RONALD:”Merk. 86. Put her down in the dirt. You feel me?”
To perform an act of (l): to up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on media.
{{quote-journal|en|date=2017-09-26|author=Judith Duportail| title=I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets| work=The Guardian
To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.
1955, ''Saturday Review'' (volume 38, part 2, page 27)
- 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.
{{quote-text|en|year=1999|title=The Golden Age of Musicals|page=50
(U); absent; not present or involved.
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Abiola Abrams|title=Dare|page=296
(quote-song)|passage=But I don't see no competition in the game and I'm pissing on itIf it ain't about the family, then I'm ghost and that's a promise