Troll vs Ghost - What's the difference?
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(fantasy) A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
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, title= (slang) An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
(astronomy, meteorology) Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.
To saunter.
To trundle, to roll from side to side.
(figuratively) To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait.
(intransitive, fishing, by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait.
* Bancroft
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
* Goldsmith
(slang) To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner, to (originally homosexual slang).
(internet slang) (to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion
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(internet slang) By extension, to incite anger (including outside of an internet context); to provoke, harass or annoy.
* 1994 March 8, “Robert Royar” (username), “
An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
(colloquial) A person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move circularly; to roll; to turn.
* Milton
(obsolete) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
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* Sir Walter Scott
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly, freely or in a carefree way.
* Shakespeare
* Hudibras
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
* Professor Wilson
(obsolete) A trolley.
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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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, 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
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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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As nouns the difference between troll and ghost
is that troll is ogre 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.troll
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), (etyl) or (etyl) troll, from (etyl) .Noun
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) ; fishing sense possibly influenced by trawl and/or trailVerb
(en verb)- 1906': ''It was necessary to '''troll''' them along two years with the hope of employing their usual methods, in order to get them to a place too far from their starting-point for retreat.'' — ,
"Fools and Their Money: Some After-Claps of Frenzied Finance"
, ''Everybody's Magazine'' ' XIV (5) May 1906, p. 690
- Their young men trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.
- With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
- His favorite place to troll is that bar on 42nd street.
- I am trolling for custom, said the actress to the bishop.
I trolled, and no one bit!”, in alt.folklore.urban, Usenet
OK, here's more on trolling”, in comp.edu.composition, Usenet :
- trolling isn't aimed at newbies. It's aimed at self-important people
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* concern troll * feed the troll * patent troll * troll-friendlyEtymology 3
From (etyl) trollen, .Verb
(en verb)- to dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye
- Then doth she troll to the bowl.
- Troll the brown bowl.
- Will you troll the catch?
- His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, / By wide-mouthed mortal trolled aloud.
- Troll the ancient Yuletide carol. Fa la la la la la la la la.
- Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:
Noun
(en noun)- (Burke)
- Thence the catch and troll , while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.
Derived terms
* troll plateReferences
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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