1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
2. a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self.
3. a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
4. a spiritual being.
5. the principle of life; soul; spirit.
6. ghostwriter.
7. a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
8. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
9. an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
10. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
11. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
12. a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
13. a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes: Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts.

14. to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
15. to haunt.
16. to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.
17. Informal.
• to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me.
• to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:My friend ghosted my birthday party.
18. to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.

19. to ghostwrite.
20. to go about or move like a ghost.
21. (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.
22. to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
23. Informal.
• to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:They dated for a month and then she ghosted.
• to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.
24. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.

25. fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud: We were making contributions to a ghost company.

26. give up the ghost,
• to die.
• to cease to function or exist.

1. the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom
2. a haunting memory
3. a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer
4. the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost)
5. physics
• a faint secondary image produced by an optical system
• a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver
6. See ghost word
7. an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists
8. Another name for ghostwriter
9. falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained
10. give up the ghost
• to die
• (of a machine) to stop working

11. See ghostwrite
12. to haunt
13. to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed

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