Geisterbild — meaning in English

English meaning

• ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
• ghosting noun The practice of ending a friendship, romance or working relationship by suddenly cutting off all contact and ignoring every message, without any explanation.

Senses

Geisterbild is used for these senses in English:

• ghost 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.
• ghosting The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

ghost — full definition

1. noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
2. verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
3. verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
4. verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.

ghosting — full definition

1. noun The practice of ending a friendship, romance or working relationship by suddenly cutting off all contact and ignoring every message, without any explanation.
2. verb Present participle of ghost: to disappear from someone's life without warning or explanation.
3. noun A faint secondary image that appears beside or behind the intended one on a screen, print or photograph.

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