Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The appearance of one or more faint, unwanted images on a television screen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practice of hiding
prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outsideinspectors . - noun The effect that interference caused by a
multipath reception problem has on a television screen. - noun
Ghost imaging . - noun A form of
identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
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Examples
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His offending started with stealing cars, but quickly progressed to "ghosting" - ripping off cannabis plantations in the forest around Kaingaroa - and growing it and selling it himself.
unknown title 2009
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His eye fell on the baby, a strange expression ghosting over his face.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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His eye fell on the baby, a strange expression ghosting over his face.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Oonishi shifted his shoulders, an impatient expression ghosting across his face.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Oonishi shifted his shoulders, an impatient expression ghosting across his face.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Oonishi shifted his shoulders, an impatient expression ghosting across his face.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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The result is called ghosting - letters missing from what you actually typed, or additional letters that you didn't type.
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Most previous solutions in the market have suffered from -- they may be able to recognize two fingers but actually not independently, and therefore there is something called ghosting, which has affected literally almost any touch screen you see out there.
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But working details and police shifts at the same time, known as ghosting or double-dipping, is a well-known no-no that has been treated seriously in the past.
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But working details and police shifts at the same time, known as ghosting or double-dipping, is a well-known no-no that has been treated seriously in the past.
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The Fed defined ghosting on the job as "a situation where a worker stops coming to work without notice and then is impossible to contact."
Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam Emily Sullivan 2019
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Ghosting When someone you've been dating abruptly cuts off communication without explanation, thus turning into a ghost.
Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam Laura Roman 2018
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n the past few years she has become particularly interested in “ghosting,” a method of ending a relationship by ceasing all forms of communication and simply vanishing — like a ghost.
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What happened to Gomez is common enough that some have coined a term for it: "cancer ghosting." This social isolation and loss of support – even from close friends and family members – is a devastating and often unrecognized side effect of the disease. Survivors say abandonment creates scars that run deeper and take longer to heal than physical damage. It's especially jarring for young patients, who have fewer peers with experience of major illness and appreciation of its many tolls.
'Cancer ghosting' can be more painful than treatment, survivors say Yuki Noguchi 2024
john commented on the word ghosting
See ghost write.
April 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word ghosting
Did you just say - *holds nose* - spectate?
April 28, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word ghosting
And what, may I ask, is wrong with spectate? Sure, it's a backformation, but some of my best friends are backformations. :-)
April 28, 2008
scarequotes commented on the word ghosting
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/fashion/exes-explain-ghosting-the-ultimate-silent-treatment.html
What’s Ghosting?
Ghost, a word more commonly associated with Casper, the boy who saw dead people and a 1990 movie starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, has also come to be used as a verb that refers to ending a romantic relationship by cutting off all contact and ignoring the former partner’s attempts to reach out.
June 29, 2015
hugovk commented on the word ghosting
ghosting, n.
The Guardian, 16 January 2017:
January 5, 2018
MaryW commented on the word ghosting
Federal Reserve Board Beige Book - Dec. 5, 2018Danielle Paqquette, Workers Are Ghosting Their Employers Like Bad Dates, Wash. Post (Dec. 12, 2018)December 18, 2018