(authorship, intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). / (authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.

(linguistics) A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless (not used in practice), that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work or otherwise listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation, misreading, or typographical error.

(photography) Any undesired image appearing at the image plane of an optical system; either a false image of the desired object, or an out-of-focus image of a bright source of light in the field of the optical system.

(computing) A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.

(archaic, idiomatic) For a person, to die.

(Australia, Melbourne, Sydney) A parking inspector, a person issuing tickets fining vehicles parked illegally or for too long.

Any of several burrowing crabs, of the genus Ocypode, found along sandy shores.

(computing) The process of creating a ghost image of all the contents of a hard drive as a backup that may be stored and later retrieved if needed.

Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts.

(Buddhism, Chinese folk religion) A type of supernatural being, condemned to desire more than it can consume. Often depicted with large belly and tiny mouth.