• Noun

    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.
    a mere shadow or semblance; a trace
    He's a ghost of his former self.
    a remote possibility
    He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
    ( sometimes initial capital letter ) a spiritual being.
    the principle of life; soul; spirit.
    Informal . ghost writer.
    a secondary image, esp. one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
    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.
    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.
    Optics . a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
    Metalworking . a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
    a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
    a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated esp. for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes
    Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts.

    Verb (used with object)

    to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
    to haunt.
    Engraving . to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.

    Verb (used without object)

    to ghostwrite.
    to go about or move like a ghost.
    (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.
    to pay people for work not performed, esp. as a way of manipulating funds.

    Adjective

    fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud
    We were making contributions to a ghost company.

    Idiom

    give up the ghost
    to die.
    to cease to function or exist.

    Antonyms

    noun
    being , entity

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