ghost

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

   “Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.”

2. isim A spirit; a human soul.

   “hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne.”

3. isim Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

   “not a ghost of a chance”

4. isim A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).

   “There was less flicker, jitter was nonexistent, and the screen pattern had been rendered far more viewworthy, with ghosts being virtually suppressed.”

5. isim A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

   “Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.”

6. isim Ellipsis of ghostwriter.

   “I’ve written both as a ghost for experts and under my name.”

7. isim A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.

   “Some health systems are plagued by "ghost" and "absent" workers. Ghost workers are nonexistent, listed in the payroll, and paid, a clear sign of corruption.”

8. isim A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).
9. isim An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

   “This will let you open a query with NickServ again so you can remove your “ghost” from the server: […]”

10. isim A copy of a file or record.
11. isim An understudy.
12. isim A covert (and deniable) agent.
13. isim An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

    “This is also the case for some racing games (Super Mario Kart is a good example) that allow you to compete against your ghosts, which are precise recordings of your performance.”

14. isim Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person.

    “"[…]no record of a Robert, or Bobby, Maclain that fits our man's description," Kuzbec said. "No social, no driver's license, no address, no military service record. He's a ghost." Kirov did find that interesting.”

15. isim An unphysical state in a gauge theory.

    “The proof is well known, and independent of the metric, but to make certain we prove it here also for the case when the state vector system of an operator contains multipole^([sic]) ghosts.”

16. isim A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.

    “彁 is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.”

17. isim Ellipsis of ghost pepper.

    “Spicy or mild, lovely bells or scary ghosts, peppers belong in your garden. Not only are they delicious, they add a gorgeous pop of color to vegetable gardens. When starting pepper seeds, consider using a heat mat.”

18. isim A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.

    “GHOST. This is a spelling game. A person gives a letter, […] his next neighbor must think of a word beginning with this letter, and then say the second letter, […]”

19. isim White or pale.

    “ghost slug”

20. isim Transparent or translucent.

    “ghost ant”

21. sıfat In the form be ghost: not present or involved; absent, gone.

    “Thug held up a middle finger. "A'ight y'all. I'm ghost."”

22. fiil Of a disembodied soul: to appear (somewhere or to someone) in the form of an apparition; to haunt.

    “since Julius Caesar, / Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted”

23. fiil To imbue (something) with a ghost-like effect or hue.

    “It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.”

24. fiil To continuously cause (someone or something) trouble; specifically, to continuously be in the thoughts of (someone) in a disturbing manner; to perturb, to trouble.
25. fiil To kill (someone).

    “My recommendation: Do me. Don't take the chance that I'll get shiv-happy on your wannabe ass. Ghost me, Riddick. Would if I were you. Though I notice he tried to ghost my ass. When he shot up that stranger instead.”

26. fiil To gray out (a visual element) to indicate that it is unavailable.

    “Whenever a menu or menu item is inappropriate or unavailable for selection, it should be ghosted. Never allow the user to select something that does nothing in response.”

27. fiil To forcibly disconnect (an IRC user) who is using one's reserved nickname.

    “I'm so untechnical that I once ghosted a registered IRC nick and then tried to identify myself to NickServ with the valid password before actually changing my nick to the aforementioned moniker.”

28. fiil To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, through text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.

    “I've recently been trying out Tinder, and while I match with people and even chat with them everything seems to be going well, but whenever I bring up meeting IRL, they are quick to ghost me.”

29. fiil To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison, usually without first informing the prisoner.

    “His power base, however, is undermined by him being constantly, “ghosted”, or moved from prison to prison.”

30. fiil Synonym of ghostwrite (“to write (a literary work or speech), or produce (an artistic work)), in the place of someone”); also, to carry out (an artistic performance) in the place of someone.

    “Here's how it went: Larry Parks as elderly Al Jolson was watching Larry Parks playing young Al Jolson in the first movie — in other words, Parks ghosting for Parks. At the same time, Jolson himself was ghosting the voices for both of them.”