ghost

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The spirit; the human soul.
2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
4. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
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.
6. A ghostwriter.
7. A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
8. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
9. An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
10. An image of a file or hard disk.
11. An understudy.
12. A covert (and deniable) agent.
13. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
14. An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
15. Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.
16. An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
17. 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.
18. Clipping of ghost pepper.
19. A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
20. White or pale.
21. Transparent or translucent.
22. Abandoned.
23. Remnant; the remains of a(n).
24. Perceived or listed but not real.
25. Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
26. Substitute.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
2. (obsolete) To die; to expire.
3. To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.
4. To ghostwrite.
5. To sail seemingly without wind.
6. To copy a file or hard drive image.
7. To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
8. To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
9. To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.
10. To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.
11. (slang) To kill.
12. (slang) To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.
13. To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.

Concepts

fantôme

revenant

spectre

fantasme

apparition

esprit

monstre

diable

démon

trace

nègre

lutin

esprit d’un mort

âme d’un mort

doppelgänger

fantome

image fantôme

site fantôme

fantôme du réseau

raie fantôme

âme

esprit d’un défunt

menace

ombre

âme en peine

toucher

psychisme

hantise

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡəʊst/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

He has done so much ghostwriting that he starts to feel like a ghost , too .

Il a fait tellement de fantômes qu'il commence à se sentir aussi comme un fantôme.