Presence vs Ghost - What's the difference?
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The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
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A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.
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Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
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A company's business activity in a particular market.
The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts
(philosophy) To make or become present.
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* 1985 , David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen ,
* 1998 , H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry ,
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804750718 (paperback),
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(rare) The spirit; the soul of man.
* Spenser
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
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* Coleridge
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Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
* Poe
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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)
(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
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(label) the of
(label) perceived or listed but not
(label) of nature
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(obsolete) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
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(obsolete) To die; to expire.
(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)
(internet) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
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Presence is a synonym of ghost.
As nouns the difference between presence and ghost
is that presence is presence 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.presence
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* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* absenceDerived terms
* compresence * copresence * presence of mind * real presence * stage presenceVerb
(presenc)page 59,
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced' without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are ' presenced .
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- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
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- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
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* ghoast (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
- Everyone showed that the ghost of an old lady haunted this crypt.
- The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.
- 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.
- Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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- Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.
- 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.
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 alsoDerived 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 GhostSee also
* apparition * banshee * barghest * bogeyman * boggart * bogie * channelling * chimera * demon * doppelganger * draugr * duppy * ectoplasm * eidolon * exorcism * fantom * fetch * ghoul * haint * hallucination * haunt * illusion * incubus * lamia * larva * lemur * manes * mare * medium * mirage * necromancy * nightmare * phantasm * phantom * poltergeist * revenant * shade * shadow * specter * spectre * spirit * Spiritism * spook * sprite * soul * things that go bump in the night * vampire * visitant * wendigo * wight * will-o'-the-wisp * wraith * zombieVerb
(en verb)- since Julius Caesar, / Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted
- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- 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.
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