Spirit vs. Ghost

Spiritnoun

The soul of a person or other creature.

Spiritnoun

A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

Spiritnoun

Enthusiasm.

Spiritnoun

The manner or style of something.

Spiritnoun

A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.

Spiritnoun

Energy; ardour.

Spiritnoun

One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

Spiritnoun

Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

Spiritnoun

(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

Spiritnoun

(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.

Spiritnoun

Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

Spiritnoun

Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

Spiritnoun

(dyeing) stannic chloride

Spiritverb

To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.

Spiritverb

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

Spiritnoun

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

Spiritnoun

A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.

Spiritnoun

Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.

Spiritnoun

The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.

Spiritnoun

Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.

Spiritnoun

Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.

Spiritnoun

Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.

Spiritnoun

One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.

Spiritnoun

Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; - often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.

Spiritnoun

Intent; real meaning; - opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.

Spiritnoun

Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.

Spiritnoun

Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): - often in the plural.

Spiritnoun

Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.

Spiritnoun

A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.

Spiritnoun

Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

Spiritnoun

Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.

Spiritverb

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; - sometimes followed by up.

Spiritverb

To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; - often with away, or off.

Spiritnoun

the vital principle or animating force within living things

Spiritnoun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

Spiritnoun

a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

Spiritnoun

any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

Spiritnoun

the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection);

Spiritnoun

the intended meaning of a communication

Spiritnoun

animation and energy in action or expression;

Spiritnoun

an inclination or tendency of a certain kind;

Spiritverb

infuse with spirit;

Spiritnoun

the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul

Spiritnoun

the non-physical part of a person regarded as their true self and as capable of surviving physical death or separation

Spiritnoun

the non-physical part of a person manifested as an apparition after their death; a ghost

Spiritnoun

a supernatural being

Spiritnoun

short for Holy Spirit

Spiritnoun

the prevailing or typical quality, mood, or attitude of a person, group, or period of time

Spiritnoun

a person identified with their most prominent quality or with their role in a group or movement

Spiritnoun

a person's mood or attitude

Spiritnoun

the quality of courage, energy, and determination

Spiritnoun

the real meaning or the intention behind something as opposed to its strict verbal interpretation

Spiritnoun

strong distilled alcoholic drink such as brandy, whisky, gin, or rum.

Spiritnoun

a volatile liquid, especially a fuel, prepared by distillation

Spiritnoun

a solution of volatile components extracted from something, typically by distillation or by solution in alcohol

Spiritnoun

a highly refined substance or fluid thought to govern vital phenomena.

Spiritverb

convey rapidly and secretly

Ghostnoun

(dated) The spirit; the soul of man.

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghostnoun

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.

Ghostnoun

A ghostwriter.

Ghostnoun

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

Ghostnoun

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

Ghostnoun

(theatre) An understudy.

Ghostnoun

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

Ghostnoun

The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

Ghostnoun

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

Ghostnoun

A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.

Ghostnoun

White or pale.

Ghostnoun

Transparent or translucent.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Abandoned.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) The remains of.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Substitute.

Ghostverb

To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

Ghostverb

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

Ghostverb

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

Ghostverb

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

Ghostverb

(GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

Ghostverb

To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

Ghostverb

To appear without warning; to move quickly and quietly; to slip.

Ghostverb

To kill.

Ghostverb

(slang) To break up with someone without warning or explanation; to perform an act of ghosting.

Ghostnoun

The spirit; the soul of man.

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghostverb

To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

Ghostnoun

a mental representation of some haunting experience;

Ghostnoun

a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Ghostnoun

the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

Ghostnoun

a suggestion of some quality;

Ghostverb

move like a ghost;

Ghostverb

haunt like a ghost; pursue;

Ghostverb

write for someone else;

Ghostnoun

an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image

Ghostnoun

a slight trace or vestige of something

Ghostnoun

a faint secondary image caused by a fault in an optical system, duplicate signal transmission, etc.

Ghostverb

act as ghostwriter of (a work)

Ghostverb

glide smoothly and effortlessly

Ghostverb

end a personal relationship with (someone) by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication

Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms.