What is the difference between revenant and ghost?
revenant | ghost |
Someone who returns from a long absence.
* 1886 , Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew'' viii, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
* 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
* 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1,
A person or thing reborn.
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:
A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
* {{quote-book, 1969, , edition=2008 ed.
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* 1988 , (Salman Rushdie), (The Satanic Verses) , Random House (2008), page 134:
(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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, title= 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)
(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
(label)
(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.
* 1606 , , Act II, sc. 6, l. 1221
(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.
* {{quote-news
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, date=September 24
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
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Ghost is a synonym of revenant.
As nouns the difference between revenant and ghost
is that revenant is someone who returns from a long absence while ghost is the spirit; the soul of man.As an adjective revenant
is Used as an adjective.As a verb ghost is
to haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.revenant
English
(wikipedia revenant)Noun
(en noun)- They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
- The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
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- From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:
- Sometimes semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
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Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.
ghost
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Alternative forms
* 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.
William E. Conner
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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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