ghost : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ghost	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for ghost
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghost n a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" Synonym(s): ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else Synonym(s): ghostwriter, ghost the visible disembodied soul of a dead person a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" Synonym(s): touch, trace, ghost v move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" Synonym(s): haunt, obsess, ghost write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" Synonym(s): ghost, ghostwrite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ghost \Ghost\, n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g[be]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g[?]st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.] 1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] 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 Harrys rose. --Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge. 3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, 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 by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. {Ghost moth} (Zo[94]l.), a large European moth {(Hepialus humuli)}; so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also {great swift}. {Holy Ghost}, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. {To} {give up [or] yield up} {the ghost}, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. --Gen. xlix. 33.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ghost \Ghost\, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ghost \Ghost\, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ghost (Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on {IRC} and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated (properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the network at large) believes the connection is still active and belongs to a real user. Compare {clonebot}. (1997-04-07)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Ghost an old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew _nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma_, both meaning "breath," "life," "spirit," the "living principle" (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:9; Matt. 27:50; John 19:30). The expression "to give up the ghost" means to die (Lam. 1:19; Gen. 25:17; 35:29; 49:33; Job 3:11). (See HOLY {GHOST}.)