Ghosted vs Ghosten - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between ghosted and ghosten

is that ghosted is past tense of ghost while ghosten is to make like a ghost; behave or appear as a ghost; make ghostly.

As an adjective ghosten is

of, belonging to, or pertaining to ghosts; ghostly; spiritual.

ghosted

English

Verb

(head)

(ghost)

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

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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}}

Anagrams

* (l), (l)

ghosten

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, belonging to, or pertaining to ghosts; ghostly; spiritual.

*1862 , Gordon Winant Hewes, Ballads of the war :

And the cold chill of an adder touch Sit with a leaden sway. And the ghosten spell-bound dogs, And the coasten hell-hound dogs, Glooms the coming of the day.

*1969 , Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter :

Time Chimes its swallows from the ghosten brass Under the trembling mirrors, a heart Groined with gloom and iron sighs Winter and summer laid four tones apart Moans the bell in your empty thighs.

* Poetry, home.earthlink.net/~obrlndr/poetry.htm

He clumbled for his fametold sword, Fear becringing on his thoughts, And steadened by the curtain cord, He breaged against the ghosten slaught.

Etymology 2

From .

Verb

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To make like a ghost; behave or appear as a ghost; make ghostly.

*1911 , John Freeman, Fifty poems :

So looks the last month's pilgrimage, So the last hill, Down the moon-ghostened road there walks.

*1912 , Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Charity :

All must look magical in the silence of the stars, when the moon ghostens in the trees, and owls float noiselessly about or pass the time of night in their long melopy, from hollybush to old Scotch fir, their cries reechoing from the turrets of the house and sounding on the lake.

*2004 , new line by ~ikelite on deviantART, ikelite.deviantart.com/art/new-line-5888187:

I'll do it again with a tripod to "ghosten " the cars.

*2006 , ACA Windart Residency 2003:

at ACA florida i was doing a "shadow session", but then i was shy to do it with philippe; did not wanted to "ghosten " him.