ghost
幽灵,阴魂不散,魂魄,幽冥
Related Words
Definitions
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- : 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.
- : a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self.
- : a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
- : a spiritual being.
- : the principle of life; soul; spirit.
- : Informal. ghostwriter.
- : 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.
- : Also called ghost im·age [gohst-im-ij] /ˈgoʊst ˌɪm ɪdʒ/ .Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
- : 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.
- : Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
- : Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
Phrases
- ghost town
- Chinaman's (ghost of a) chance
- give up the ghost
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The expansion of ghost kitchens was well underway before the pandemic.
The spread of third-party delivery apps and ghost kitchens means that many customers largely interact with restaurants through apps, not the restaurants directly.
New “ghost kitchens,” or delivery-only restaurants capitalizing on the rise of Grubhub and UberEats, popped up, many specializing in wings.
Last year police in New York state arrested an Army drone operator and alleged Boogaloo Boi on charges that he owned an illegal ghost gun.
Group Nine has been thinking about expanding further in this direction by leveraging the ghost kitchen it launched through Thrillist back in December.
The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
Now, she says, her coworkers are actively pranking each other and blaming it on the ghost.
First, the ghost of his departed partner, Jacob Marley, comes calling, his face emerging from the doorknob.
As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town.
The ghost writer in question is assumed to be one Siobhan Curham—an established author of both YA and adult fiction.
T least, thet's all I think 't wuz; though thar wuz those thet said 't wuz Claiborne's .