https://youtube/watch?v=pbMyUv_-YGw ghost |gōst| noun an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image : the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk | figurative the ghosts of communism returned to haunt the living. • [as adj. ] appearing or manifesting but not actually existing : the Flying Dutchman is the most famous ghost ship. • a faint trace of something : she gave the ghost of a smile. • archaic a spirit or soul. • a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or on a cathode-ray screen, e.g., by faulty television reception or internal reflection in a mirror or camera. verb 1 [ trans. ] act as ghostwriter of (a work) : his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist. 2 [ intrans. ] glide smoothly and effortlessly : they ghosted up the river. PHRASES the ghost in the machine Philosophy the mind viewed as distinct from the body (usually used in a derogatory fashion by critics of dualism). [ORIGIN: coined by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle (1949).] give up the ghost die. • (of a machine) stop working. look as if you have seen a ghost look very pale and shocked. not stand a ghost of a chance have no chance at all. DERIVATIVES ghostlike |-ˌlīk| adjective ORIGIN Old English gāst (in the sense [spirit, soul] ), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest.
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