Blog vs Ghost - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between blog and ghost

is that blog is (dated|fandom slang|originally|nonce|jocular) a cocktail or punch served at science fiction conventions ingredients vary for different conventions while ghost is (rare) the spirit; the soul of man.

As a verb ghost is

(obsolete|transitive) to haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

blog

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of weblog . The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined May 23, 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of the online magazine "Tasty Bits from the Technology Front" which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz who put the following on his web site'>citation

Noun

(en noun)

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Entries typically appear in reverse chronological order.

Derived terms

* blahg * blogebrity * blogette * bloggable * blogger * blogoholic * blogophile * blogorrhea * blogosphere * blogworthy * microblog * photoblog * splog * unblogged * vlog

Verb

(blogg)

(blogging) To contribute to a blog.

Etymology 2

Verb

(blogg)

(British, slang) To blag, to steal something; To acquire something illegally.

Etymology 3

Noun

(-)

(dated, fandom slang, jocular)

* {{quote-book

, year = 1960 , year_published = 2006-07-19 , author = Rich Brown & Paul Stanbery , title = The Golden Halls of Mirth , url = http://efanzines.com/GoldenHalls/ , passage = The earliest form we know about composed before Rhysling was blinded, at some drinking bout, and the verses concerned what he would do at the SoLaCon I—if he could find enough blog , a mimeo, and a few willing femmefans. }}

* {{quote-usenet

, year = 1994 , monthday = June 07 , author = David E Romm , email = , title = Re: To Ghost or Not To Ghost... , id = 71443.1447-070694144409@dialup-3-152.gw.umn.edu , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/3nel8QI62Eg/3UR5JVN-I7AJ }}

The closest we came to that was not serving alcohol in the consuite one year. That was a significant success for it's main purpose. We actually came up with a definition of a fan, albeit a partial one phrased in the negative: Anyone who comes to Minicon just because there's free beer in the consuite is not a fan. That year there was more alcohol and more kinds* of alcohol than at any Minicon before or since; all the real fans who liked to drink brought their own and shared. The policy mainly discouraged the jerks who liked to hang out at the consuite and hit on the women. We did that for one year and happily went back to serving beer and blog .

* {{quote-usenet

, year = 1995 , monthday = September 04 , author = Lindsay Crawford , email = , title = Re: Intersection , id = 9509042250393785@emerald.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/W1tXZOtnmwA/vXf06yi6u_MJ }}

I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog , thank you.

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References

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ghost

English

Alternative forms

* ghoast (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) The spirit; the soul of man.

* Spenser

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.

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.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.

* Coleridge

I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost .

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.

* Poe

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

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.

A ghostwriter.

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

(theater) An understudy.

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

* 1992 , Maurice J. Whitford, Getting Rid of Graffiti (page 45)

Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

* 2012 , Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games

This is also the case for some racing games (Super Mario Kart is a good example) that allow you to compete against your ghosts , which are precise recordings of your performance.

(label)

(label) the of

(label) perceived or listed but not

(label) of nature

(label)

Synonyms

* (soul) soul, spirit * (spirit appearing after death) apparition, haint, phantom, revenant, specter/spectre, spook, wraith. * (faint shadowy semblance) glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, hint, inkling, spark, suggestion. * (false image in an optical device) * (false image on a television screen) : echo * (ghostwriter) ghostwriter * See also

Derived terms

* antighost * * ghost band * ghost bat * ghost bike * ghost catshark * ghost chili * ghost condensate * ghost crab * ghost dance * ghost detainee * ghosten * Ghost Festival * ghost flathead * ghost fleet * ghost frog * ghost fungus * ghost goal * ghost gum * ghost hunting * ghost imaging * ghost insect * ghost island * ghost knifefish * ghost light * ghost mark * ghost moth * ghost net * ghost note * ghost of a chance * ghost orchid * ghostly * ghost pepper * ghost ramp * ghost-riding * ghost runner * ghost ship * ghost shrimp * ghost sickness * ghost sign * ghost skate * ghost slug * ghost station * ghost story * ghost town * ghost train * ghost voting * ghost world * ghostwriter * give up the ghost * grey ghost * Holy Ghost

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

* 1606 , , Act II, sc. 6, l. 1221

since Julius Caesar, / Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

(Sir Philip Sidney)

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

(GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

* 1991 , Amiga User Interface Style Guide (page 76)

Whenever a menu or menu item is inappropriate or unavailable for selection, it should be ghosted . Never allow the user to select something that does nothing in response.

(internet) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal came into the match under severe pressure and nerves were palpable early on as Pratley was brilliantly denied by Szczesny after ghosting in front of Kieran Gibbs}}

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