How to pronounce “ghost”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
• (Christianity, literary, chiefly archaic) A spirit; a human soul.
• (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
• A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
• (cleaning) A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
• (writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
• A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
• A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting). (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
• (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
• (computing) A copy of a file or record.
• (theater) An understudy. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
• (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
• (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
• Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person.
• (quantum mechanics) An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
• (computing, linguistics, attributive) 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.
• (countable) Ellipsis of ghost pepper.
• (uncountable, often capitalized) A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
• (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
• (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
• (attributive) Abandoned.
• (attributive) Remnant; remains.
• (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
• (attributive) Of a cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
• (attributive) Substitute.
• [Adjective]
• (African-American Vernacular, slang) In the form be ghost: not present or involved; absent, gone.
• [Verb]
• (transitive)
• (intransitive)

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