Gree vs Ghost - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between gree and ghost

is that gree is while ghost is (obsolete|transitive) to haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

As a noun ghost is

(rare) the spirit; the soul of man.

gree

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Compare (degree), (grade).

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One of a flight of steps.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 5:

"My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."

(label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

He is a shepherd great in gree .

Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).

*:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye

A degree.

Etymology 2

From (pre-reform) (etyl) , from Old (etyl) (gray).

Noun

Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).

* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:

bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.

* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :

And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.

* Fairfax

Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.

* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:

When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."

Etymology 3

Verb

(obsolete) To agree.

(Fuller)

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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