Definizione monolingua

ghost

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

1. (transitive) To haunt.
2. (ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.
3. (computing) to copy a file or hard drive image.
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   • 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, BBC Sport:

     Arsenal came into the match under severe pressure and nerves were palpable early on as Pratley was brilliantly denied by Szczesny after ghosting in front of Kieran Gibbs

ghost (plural ghosts)

1. (obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.

   Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. — Spenser

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

   The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose. — Shakespeare.

   I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost. — Coleridge

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate ""closet taxonomist,"" Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.

   not a ghost of a chance

   the ghost of an idea

   Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. — Poe

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. (paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.

   Before all else, we speak to the land to the ghosts and spirits of this place known to many as pixies, fairies, brownies, or elfs. (Math Jones)

8. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the users client disconnecting without notifying the server.
9. (computing) an image of a file or hard disk.

Definizione dizionario ghost

	fantasma
	spirit appearing after death
	The visible disembodied soul of a dead person

	spettro
	spirit appearing after death

	spirito
	spirit appearing after death

	apparizione
	spirit appearing after death

	larva
	spirit appearing after death

	ombra
	spirit appearing after death

	simulacro
	spirit appearing after death

	sito fantasma
	An abandoned or no-longer-maintained Web site that remains accessible to visitors.

anima

fantasmi del reticolo

folletto

male

righe spettrali false

Altri significati:

false image in an optical device

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

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

A ghostwriter.

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

spirit (of the dead)

(computing) to copy a file or hard drive image.

(transitive) To haunt.

(intransitive) To ghostwrite.

(paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.

false image on a television screen

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.

(transitive) To ghostwrite.

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

(vengeful) ghost

faint shadowy semblance

(obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.