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Prisoner vs Ghosting - What's the difference?

prisoner | ghosting |

As nouns the difference between prisoner and ghosting

is that prisoner is a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence while ghosting is the practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.

prisoner

English

(wikipedia prisoner)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  • Any person held against their will.
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  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    • Related terms

    * imprison * prison

    ghosting

    English

    Noun

  • The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
  • The effect that interference caused by a multipath reception problem has on a television screen.
  • Ghost imaging.
  • A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
  • (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses are not recognised.