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Look up: Ghost

  1. Ghost
    1) Noun - Beam of light which inadvertently leaks from a lantern and falls where it is not wanted. 2) Verb - To allow a small dim light to emit from a follow spot to allow it to be properly lined up before turning the lantern to full. 3) No theatre would be complete without a resident ghost!
    Found on http://www.dramatic.com.au/glossary/glos

  2. Ghost
    Popular term for an experience believed to indicate the presence of the spirit of a deceased person. See also apparition, haunting, poltergeist. Full definition
    Found on http://www.psychics.co.uk/define/

  3. Ghost
    Popular term for an experience believed to indicate the presence of the spirit of a deceased person. See also apparition, haunting, poltergeist.
    Found on http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/paragl

  4. ghost
    [n] - the visible disembodied soul of a dead person 2. [n] - a mental representation of some haunting experience 3. [v] - move like a ghost 4. [v] - write for someone else
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. ghost
    The spectre of a person who has died and who is believed to haunt places at certain times. Ghosts are often described as being indifferent to human presence, though a few are vengeful. Many faiths...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  6. ghost
    (chat) (Or 'zombie') The image of a user's session on IRC and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated (properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the network at large) believes the connection is still active and belongs to a real user. Compare clonebot. (1997-04-07)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  7. ghost
    a spurious additional image of a picture highlight caused by photoelectrons reflected from the target at high velocity and subsequently returning to it at other locations Category: Electrical engineering and energy • a defect,apparent in reproduction,in which an additional outline,or ghost,or succession of outlines,or multiple image,of prominent features of a picture may be observed di...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  8. Ghost
    Ghost noun [ Middle English gast , gost , soul, spirit, Anglo-Saxon gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to Old Saxon g...st spirit, soul, Dutch geest , German geist , and probably to English gaze , ghastly .] 1. The spirit; the soul of man. [ Obsolete] « Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.» Spens ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/24

  9. Ghost
    Ghost intransitive verb To die; to expire. [ Obsolete] Sir P. Sidney.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/24

  10. Ghost
    Ghost transitive verb To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [ Obsolete] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/24

  11. ghost
    1. The spirit; the soul of man. 'Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.' (Spenser) ... 2. 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.' (Shak) 'I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.' (Coleridge) ... 3. ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  12. ghost
    shade 1 spook noun a mental representation of some haunting experience; `he looked like he had seen a ghost`; `it aroused specters from his past`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. ghost
    ghostwrite verb write for someone else; `How many books have you ghostwritten so far?`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. ghost
    verb move like a ghost; `The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. ghost
    noun a suggestion of some quality; `there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone`; `he detected a ghost of a smile on her face`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. Ghost
    A `ghost` is said to be the apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and usually encountered in places she or he frequented, or in association with the person's former belongings. The word `ghost` may also refer to the spirit or soul of a deceased person, or to any spirit or demon. Ghosts are often associated with hauntings, which is, according to the Parapsychological Association, `the more or less regula...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost

  17. Ghost
    • (v. i.) To die; to expire. • (n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. • (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. • (n.) The spirit; the soul of man. • (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  18. Ghost
    (from the article `1990: Other Winners`) Original Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin for GhostAdapted Screenplay: Michael Blake for Dances with WolvesCinematography: Dean Semler for Dances with ... Other Nominees...The Color Purple (1985), for which she garnered an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Goldberg went on to perform in l...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/28

  19. ghost
    soul or spectre of a dead person, usually believed to inhabit the netherworld and to be capable of returning in some form to the world of the ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/28

  20. ghost
    A hemoglobin-depleted erythrocyte that has also lost most, if not all, of its internal proteins.
    Found on

  21. ghost
    1. a mental representation of some haunting experience
    2. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
    3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
    4. a suggestion of some quality

    Found on

  22. ghost
    a spurious additional image of a picture highlight caused by photoelectrons reflected from the target at high velocity and subsequently returning to it at other locations
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  23. ghost
    an additional image, positive or negative, which may be seen displaced from the main image
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  24. ghost
    ghost: see apparition; poltergeist.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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23 November 2009

This day in history:
At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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