English Dictionary

ghost

/ɡəʊst/

verb

(obsolete, transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition. / (obsolete) To die; to expire. / (literary) To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.

She ghosted him after their first date.

意味（1）

(obsolete, transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

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

意味（2）

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

意味（3）

(literary) To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.

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.

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive) To ghostwrite.

Well, you wrote a few books, you wrote a famous play, and even that was half ghosted.

意味（5）

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

They move without any visible sign of movement, like a wakeless ship ghosting over the water.

意味（6）

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

意味（7）

(graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) 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.

意味（8）

(Internet, transitive) 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.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.

Arsenal came into the match under severe pressure and nerves were palpable early on as Pratley was brilliantly denied by Szczesny after ghosting in front of Kieran Gibbs

意味（10）

(transitive) To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.

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

意味（11）

(slang) To kill.

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.

意味（12）

(slang, social media) To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.

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.

意味（13）

(film) To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.

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.