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Phantom vs Spook - What's the difference?

phantom | spook |

As a proper noun phantom

is nickname of the f-4b jet fighter flown by marines in vietnam.

As a noun spook is

a spirit returning to haunt a place.

As a verb spook is

to scare or frighten.

phantom

English

Alternative forms

* fantom (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * ghost * See also

    Derived terms

    * phantom limb * phantom pain

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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.

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    spook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spirit returning to haunt a place.
    • The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
  • A ghost or an apparition.
    • The building was haunted by a couple of spooks .
  • A hobgoblin.
  • (espionage) A spy.
  • * 2009 , "Spies like them", BBC News Magazine (online), 24 July 2009:
    • From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold
    • The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks .
  • A scare or fright.
    • The big spider gave me a spook .
  • (dated, pejorative) A black person.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To scare or frighten.
  • To startle or frighten an animal
    • The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.

    Derived terms

    * spookiness * spookish * spook out * spooky

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