ghost
41ghost of a — Least trace of; slightest resemblance to; smallest bit even of; a very little. Usually used with chance or idea in negative sentences, or with smile . * /There wasn t a ghost of a chance that Jack would win./ * /We didn t have the ghost of an… …
42ghost\ of\ a — Least trace of; slightest resemblance to; smallest bit even of; a very little. Usually used with chance or idea in negative sentences, or with smile . There wasn t a ghost of a chance that Jack would win. We didn t have the ghost of an idea where …
43ghost — 1) vb American to depart, leave. This item of black street slang, adopted also by white adolescents in the 1990s, is probably related to the phrase git ghost. 2) adj American absent, missing, unseen. A key term from the lexicon of street gangs… …
44ghost — noun 1》 an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear to the living, typically as a nebulous image. ↘archaic a spirit or soul. 2》 a faint trace: the ghost of a smile. 3》 a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical… …
45ghost — Lapu, akua lapu, akua, uhane. Also: mauli, wailua; maka pilau, haili, makani, ōlohe, ula, hoaka, akalau. See Holy Ghost. ♦ Ghost procession, huaka i pō, oi o, kāo oloa. ♦ To give up the ghost, ku u i ka uhane …
46Ghost — An old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew nephesh and the Greek pneuma, both meaning breath, life, spirit, the living principle (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:9; Matt. 27:50; John 19:30). The expression to give… …
47Ghost — I Ghost [engl.], Geisterbild. II Ghost [gəʊst; englisch, eigentlich »Geist«] der, s/ s, Biologie: 1) leere Proteinhülle eines Bakteriophagen; 2) »leeres« rotes …
48Ghost — , Ghostly Ghost is the old Saxon word for spirit and is still used in the Name of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. Ghostly, the adjective form of the word, has been retained in the Prayer Book and means spiritual, e. g., in the… …
49ghost — A disembodied spirit, supposedly residing in sheol (Job 26:5; Isa. 14:9) and capable of being brought up by a professional medium (1 Sam. 28:12–14). The disciples mistake Jesus walking on the sea for a ghost (Mark 6:49) as they also do when they… …
50ghost — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. apparition, phantom, spirit, shade, specter. See demon, intellect. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An unsubstantial being] Syn. vision, specter, wraith, apparition, spirit, daemon, demon, shade, phantom,… …
