GHOST

Ghost

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a séance.

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G.ho.st

G.ho.st was the trading name of Ghost Inc. and the service name and URL of the company's hosted computer operating system or WebOS service. Its name is an acronym of Global Hosted Operating SysTem. The old URL G.ho.st is a domain hack using the São Tomé and Príncipe .st country extension and more recently Ghost has moved to http://Ghost.cc. As of April 2010 Ghost has closed its service due to competition and lack of funding.

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ghost

Noun

  1. The spirit; the soul of man.
  2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
    Everyone showed that the ghost of an old lady haunted this crypt.
  3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
  4. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
  5. 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.
  6. A ghostwriter.
  7. An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
  8. An image of a file or hard disk.
  9. An understudy.
  10. A covert (and deniable) agent.
  11. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
  12. An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
  13. or
  14. or
  15. the of
  16. perceived or listed but not
  17. of , or nature

Verb

  1. To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
  2. To die; to expire.
  3. To ghostwrite.
  4. to copy a file or hard drive image.
  5. To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.


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