2syllables
ghosting
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Definitions ofghosting
1verb
- To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
- To die; to expire.
- To ghostwrite.
- To sail seemingly without wind.
- To copy a file or hard drive image.
- 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.
- To appear without warning; to move quickly and quietly; to slip.
- To kill.
- To break up with someone without warning or explanation; to perform an act of ghosting.
1noun
- The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
- The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
- Ghost imaging.
- A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
- A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
- A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
Example: "Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but it's worth mentioning that friend ghosting is real, and sometimes necessary."
- The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
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