Bogey vs. Ghost

Bogeynoun

The Devil.

Ghostnoun

(dated) The spirit; the soul of man.

Bogeynoun

A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death

‘Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.’;

Bogeynoun

A bugbear: any terrifying thing.

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image

‘not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea’;

Bogeynoun

One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; the structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi.

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Bogeynoun

A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.

Ghostnoun

An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.

Bogeynoun

(engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.

Ghostnoun

A ghostwriter.

Bogeynoun

An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.

Ghostnoun

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

Bogeynoun

synonym of bandit: a known hostile aircraft.

Ghostnoun

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

Bogeynoun

(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.

Ghostnoun

(theatre) An understudy.

Bogeynoun

(UK) nodot=1: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.

Ghostnoun

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

Bogeyverb

(golf) To make a bogey.

Ghostnoun

The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

Bogeynoun

A goblin; a bugbear.

‘I have become a sort of bogey - a kill-joy.’;

Ghostnoun

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

Bogeynoun

a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; - it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.

Ghostnoun

A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.

Bogeynoun

an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.

Ghostnoun

White or pale.

‘ghost slug; ghostberry; ghostflower; ghost crab; ghost bat’;

Bogeynoun

an evil spirit

Ghostnoun

Transparent or translucent.

‘ghost ant; ghost catfish; ghost nipper; ghost nudibranch’;

Bogeynoun

(golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Abandoned.

‘ghost town; ghost net; ghost ramp; ghost ship’;

Bogeynoun

an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft

Ghostnoun

(attributive) The remains of.

‘ghost cell; ghost crater; ghost image’;

Bogeyverb

to shoot in one stroke over par

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

‘ghost pain; ghost cellphone vibration; ghost island; ghost voter’;

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

‘ghost rocket; ghost deer; ghost cat’;

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Substitute.

‘ghost writer; ghost band; ghost singer’;

Ghostverb

To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

Ghostverb

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

Ghostverb

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

Ghostverb

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

Ghostverb

(GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

Ghostverb

To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

Ghostverb

To appear without warning; to move quickly and quietly; to slip.

Ghostverb

To kill.

Ghostverb

(slang) To break up with someone without warning or explanation; to perform an act of ghosting.

Ghostnoun

The spirit; the soul of man.

‘Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.’;

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

‘The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.’; ‘I thought that I had died in sleep,And was a blessed ghost.’;

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

‘Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.’;

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

‘And he gave up the ghost full softly.’; ‘Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people’;

Ghostverb

To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

Ghostnoun

a mental representation of some haunting experience;

‘he looked like he had seen a ghost’; ‘it aroused specters from his past’;

Ghostnoun

a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Ghostnoun

the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

Ghostnoun

a suggestion of some quality;

‘there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone’; ‘he detected a ghost of a smile on her face’;

Ghostverb

move like a ghost;

‘The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard’;

Ghostverb

haunt like a ghost; pursue;

‘Fear of illness haunts her’;

Ghostverb

write for someone else;

‘How many books have you ghostwritten so far?’;

Ghostnoun

an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image

‘a ghost ship’; ‘the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk’;

Ghostnoun

a slight trace or vestige of something

‘she gave the ghost of a smile’;

Ghostnoun

a faint secondary image caused by a fault in an optical system, duplicate signal transmission, etc.

Ghostverb

act as ghostwriter of (a work)

‘his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist’;

Ghostverb

glide smoothly and effortlessly

‘they ghosted up the river’;

Ghostverb

end a personal relationship with (someone) by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication

‘I didn't want to ghost her, so we ended up having ‘the talk’ and it was horrible’; ‘people who ghost are primarily focused on avoiding their own emotional discomfort’; ‘being ghosted is one of the toughest ways to be dumped’;

Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms.