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Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun ghost has 4 senses

1.  ghost(n = noun.cognition) shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
is a kind of apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
Derived form verb ghost2

2.  ghost(n = noun.person) ghostwriter - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else; Array
is a kind of author, writer
Derived form verb ghost3

3.  ghost(n = noun.person) Array - the visible disembodied soul of a dead person; Array
is a kind of
psyche, soul
has particulars: poltergeist, revenant
Derived forms verb ghost1, adjective ghostly1

4.  ghost(n = noun.communication) touch, trace - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
is a kind of proffer, proposition, suggestion


Verb ghost has 3 senses

1.  ghost(v = verb.motion) Array - move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
is one way to
go, locomote, move, travel
Derived form noun ghost3
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s

2.  ghost(v = verb.emotion) haunt, obsess - haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
is one way to preoccupy
Derived form noun ghost1
Sample sentences: The good news will ghost her

3.  ghost(v = verb.creation) ghostwrite - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
is one way to author
Derived form noun ghost2
Sample sentences: Did he ghost his major works over a short period of time?


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

ghost, n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.].

1.  The spirit; the soul of man. [1913 Webster]
"Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament." [1913 Webster]

2.  The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. [1913 Webster]
"The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose." [1913 Webster]
"I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.
" [1913 Webster]

3.  Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. [1913 Webster]
"Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." [1913 Webster]

4.  A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. [1913 Webster]
"And he gave up the ghost full softly." [1913 Webster]
"Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people" [1913 Webster]

Ghost moth (Zoöl.), 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 the ghost or To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.

ghost, v. i.

   To die; to expire. Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]


ghost, v. t.

   To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. Shak. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

ghost, n. & v.
--n.
1 the supposed apparition of a dead person or animal; a disembodied spirit.
2 a shadow or mere semblance (not a ghost of a chance).
3 an emaciated or pale person.
4 a secondary or duplicated image produced by defective television reception or by a telescope.
5 archaic a spirit or soul.
--v.
1 intr. (often foll. by for) act as ghost-writer.
2 tr. act as ghost-writer of (a work).

Idiom:
ghost town a deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants. ghost-write v.tr. & intr. act as ghost-writer (of). ghost-writer a person who writes on behalf of the credited author of a work.

Derivative:
ghostlike adj.

Etymology:
OE gast f. WG: gh- occurs first in Caxton, prob. infl. by Flem. gheest


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Book

N  booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.


Demon

N  demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.


Corpse

N  corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones, defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay, mummy, carrion, food for worms, food for fishes, tenement of clay this mortal coil, shade, ghost, manes, organic remains, fossils, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied, sapromyiophyllous.


Dimsightedness

N  dimsightedness, dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight, dimsightedness, purblindness, lippitude, myopia, presbyopia, confusion of vision, astigmatism, color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis, Daltonism, nyctalopia, strabismus, strabism, squint, blearedness, day blindness, hemeralopia, nystagmus, xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia, cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes, obliquity of vision, winking, nictitation, blinkard, albino, dizziness, swimming, scotomy, cataract, ophthalmia, blinker, screen, deceptio visus, refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, vision, specter, apparition, ghost, ignis fatuus, specter of the Brocken, magic mirror, magic lantern, mirror lens, dim-sighted, myopic, presbyopic, astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed, blind of one eye, monoculous, half-blind, purblind, cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole- eyed, dichroic, blind as a bat, winking.


Intellect

N  intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, Vernunft, Verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, CPU, arithmetic and logical unit, ALU, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist, intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason, in petto, ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, my mind is my kingdom, stern men with empires in their brains, the mind, the music breathing from her face, thou living ray of intellectual Fire.


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