Ghost vs. Devil — What's the Difference?

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

A wicked or malevolent person.

The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.It is difficult to specify a particular definition of any complexity that will cover all of the traditions, beyond that it is a manifestation of evil.

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.

Often Devil In many religions, the major personified spirit of evil, ruler of Hell, and foe of God. Used with the.

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

A subordinate evil spirit; a demon.

Act as ghostwriter of (a work)

A person

Glide smoothly and effortlessly

An energetic, mischievous, daring, or clever person.

A person's spirit or soul

(Printing) A printer's devil.

A returning or haunting memory or image.

A device or machine, especially one having teeth or spikes and used for tearing.

A slight or faint trace

An outstanding example, especially of something difficult or bad

The tiniest bit

A severe reprimand or expression of anger

An unwanted image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.

(Informal) Used as an intensive

A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.

To season (food) heavily.

An unwanted spectral line caused by imperfections in a diffraction grating.

To annoy, torment, or harass.

A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.

To tear up (cloth or rags) in a toothed machine.

(Informal) A ghostwriter.

(theology) The chief devil; Satan.

A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.

(theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.

A fictitious employee or business.

(folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.

(Physiology) A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.

The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.

(Informal) To engage in ghostwriting.

A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.

To move noiselessly like a ghost

A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.

(Informal) To cut off all communication with someone, especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation

Hell.

To haunt.

A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.

(Informal) To ghostwrite

A printer's assistant.

(Informal) To cut off all communication with (someone), especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation

(India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.

The spirit; the human soul.

A dust devil.

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

A barren, unproductive and unused area.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

(cookery) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.

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

A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.

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.

A Tasmanian devil.

A ghostwriter.

An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.

A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.

(nautical) devil seam: {{ngd}}

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

To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

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

To annoy or bother.

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

To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.

(theatre) An understudy.

To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

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

To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.

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

To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.

Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

(quantum physics) An unphysical state in a gauge theory.

An evil spirit; a demon.

A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.

A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.

(countable) ghost pepper

An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.

(uncountable) A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.

A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.

White or pale.

A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.

Transparent or translucent.

To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

(attributive) Abandoned.

To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

(attributive) Remnant; the remains of a(n).

(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

A word used in exclamations of confusion;

(attributive) Substitute.

A rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man);

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

A cruel wicked and inhuman person

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;

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

Coat or stuff with a spicy paste;

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

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

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

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

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

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

(slang) To kill.

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

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

The spirit; the soul of man.

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

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

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

To die; to expire.

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

A mental representation of some haunting experience;

A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

The visible disembodied soul of a dead person

A suggestion of some quality;

Move like a ghost;

Haunt like a ghost; pursue;

Write for someone else;