ghost
has definitions from the fields of religion,writing
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[ noun ] a mental representation of some haunting experience
Examples "he looked like he had seen a ghost" "it aroused specters from his past" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts . The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move like a ghost
Examples "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" Used in print (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)They slid through the wicket in the big gate , ghosted across the dark ground . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
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[ verb ] (writing) write for someone else
Synonyms Examples "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" |
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[ noun ] (religion) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
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[ noun ] a suggestion of some quality
Examples "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone" "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" Related terms |
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