Mirage vs Phantom - What's the difference?
mirage | phantom |
An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance.
(figuratively) An illusion.
To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo, chapter=, edition=
, passage=All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=A. E. W. Mason, title=Ensign Knightley and Other Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation. }}
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.
An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
Illusive.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
Fictitious or nonexistent.
As nouns the difference between mirage and phantom
is that mirage is an optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance while phantom is something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.As a verb mirage
is to cause to appear as or like a mirage.As an adjective phantom is
illusive.As a proper noun Phantom is
nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by Marines in Vietnam.mirage
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* (Mirage) * fata morgana * illusion * optical illusionVerb
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