Sole vs. Ghost — What's the Difference?

A shipping forecast area in the north-eastern Atlantic, covering the western approaches to the English Channel.

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.

Put a new sole on to (a shoe)

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

One and only

Act as ghostwriter of (a work)

(especially of a woman) unmarried.

Glide smoothly and effortlessly

The underside of the foot.

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

The underside of a shoe or boot, often excluding the heel.

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

The bottom surface of a plow.

A person's spirit or soul

The bottom surface of the head of a golf club.

A returning or haunting memory or image.

Any of various chiefly marine flatfishes of the family Soleidae, having both eyes on the right side of the body, and including food fishes such as the Dover sole of the Atlantic Ocean.

A slight or faint trace

Any of various other flatfishes, especially certain flounders.

The tiniest bit

To furnish (a shoe or boot) with a sole.

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

To put the sole of (a golf club) on the ground, as in preparing to make a stroke.

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

Being the only one

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

Of or relating to only one individual or group; exclusive

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

Only.

(Informal) A ghostwriter.

(legal) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.

Unique; unsurpassed.

A fictitious employee or business.

With independent power; unfettered.

(Physiology) A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.

(anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

(Informal) To engage in ghostwriting.

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

To move noiselessly like a ghost

(obsolete) The foot itself.

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

(fish) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.

To haunt.

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

(Informal) To ghostwrite

The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.

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

The bottom of a furrow.

The spirit; the human soul.

The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.

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

The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

(military) The bottom of an embrasure.

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

(nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.

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.

(nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat

A ghostwriter.

(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.

A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

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

A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

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

(transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)

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

To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

(theatre) An understudy.

Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidæ, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.

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

The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.

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

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

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

To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.

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

Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.

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.

Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

(countable) ghost pepper

The underside of footwear or a golfclub

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

Lean flesh of any of several flatfish

White or pale.

The underside of the foot

Transparent or translucent.

Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European

(attributive) Abandoned.

Put a new sole on;

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

Not divided or shared with others;

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

Being the only one; single and isolated from others;

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

(attributive) Substitute.

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.

(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;