Phantom : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Phantom	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Phantom
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phantom adj something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb" n a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" Synonym(s): apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" Synonym(s): apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phantom \Phan"tom\, a. Being, or of the nature of, a phantom. Phantom isles are floating in the skies. --B. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phantom \Phan"tom\, n. [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF. fant[93]me, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to show. See {Fancy}, and cf. {Pha[89]ton}, {Phantasm}, {Phase}.] That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. --Pope. She was a phantom of delight. --Wordsworth. {Phantom ship}. See {Flying Dutchman}, under {Flying}. {Phantom tumor} (Med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but disappearing upon the administration of an an[91]sthetic.