ghost
Betekenis (English)
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- 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.
- A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- 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.
- A ghostwriter.
- A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
- A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
- An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- An image of a file or hard disk.
- An understudy.
- A covert (and deniable) agent.
- The 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 him/her.
- An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
- 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.
- Clipping of ghost pepper.
- A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
- White or pale.
- Transparent or translucent.
- Abandoned.
- Remnant; the remains of a(n).
- Perceived or listed but not real.
- Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- Substitute.
Synonyms
evil spirit
departed soul
dead person
ancestral spirit
dead body
sudden apparition
double image
ghost line
supernatural being
will-o’-the-wisp
white person
spirit of a dead person
disembodied soul
departed spirits
female demon
human spirit
bad spirit
Daityas
burning ground
dead soul
phantom line
Rowland ghost
grating ghost
death’s soul
bright band
secondary image
fold-over
spectre specter
jack-o’-lantern
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ɡəʊst/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.
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