ALL meanings of ghosting
ghost·ing
G g - noun ghosting the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons. 1
- noun ghosting The appearance of a ghost or secondary image on a television or other display screen. 1
- noun ghosting a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self. 1
- noun ghosting a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance. 1
- noun ghosting (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being. 1
- noun ghosting the principle of life; soul; spirit. 1
- noun ghosting Informal. ghost writer. 1
- noun ghosting a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver. 1
- noun ghosting Also called ghost image. Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens. 1
- noun ghosting an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word. 1
- noun ghosting Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines. 1
- noun ghosting Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities. 1
- noun ghosting a red blood cell having no hemoglobin. 1
- noun ghosting a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes: Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts. 1
- verb with object ghosting to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.). 1
- verb with object ghosting to haunt. 1
- verb with object ghosting Engraving. to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving. 1
- verb with object ghosting Informal. to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me. to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye: My friend ghosted my birthday party. 1
- verb with object ghosting Digital Technology. to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster. 1
- verb without object ghosting to ghostwrite. 1
- verb without object ghosting to go about or move like a ghost. 1
- verb without object ghosting (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind. 1
- verb without object ghosting to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds. 1
- verb without object ghosting Informal. to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: They dated for a month and then she ghosted. to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye: I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost. 1
- verb without object ghosting Digital Technology. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster. 1
- adjective ghosting fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud: We were making contributions to a ghost company. 1
- idioms ghosting give up the ghost, to die. to cease to function or exist. 1
- noun ghosting the act or an instance of ending a romantic relationship by not responding to attempts to communicate by the other party 0