ghost(SPIRIT)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Souls, spirits & ghosts
apparition
astral plane
astral projection
aura
chi
ectoplasm
haunted
incorporeal
incubus
necromancer
necromancy
reincarnation
soul
spectrally
spectre
succubus
séance
wight
wraith
zombie
phantom
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈfæn.təm/ us /ˈfæn.t̬əm/
like a ghost: 像幽灵的；像鬼魂的
A phantom coach is said to pass through the grounds of this house when there's a full moon.据说月圆时一辆幽灵马车就会从这座房子的庭院里驶过。
humorousThe phantom wine-drinker has been around (= an unknown person has been drinking the wine)!附近一定有嗜酒幽灵出没！
used to describe something that you imagine exists or that appears to exist, although in fact it does not: 幻觉的；幻影的；虚假的
Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.尽管不得已把一条腿截去了，但她仍觉得自己仿佛有条虚幻的腿。
They discovered it was a phantom organization set up for the processing of drug profits.他们发现这只是一个遮人耳目、处理毒品利润的组织。
UKAlthough she grew bigger, she later discovered it was a phantom (USfalse) pregnancy.尽管她肚子越来越大，但后来却发现是精神性假妊娠。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unreal things and unreality
alternate reality
alternative reality
birther
cloud cuckoo land
delusion
fairyland
fallacy
false hopes
falsity
fantasy
illusion
la-la land
make believephrase
never-never land
non-fact
phantasmagorical
pie
pie in the skyidiom
unreality
untruth

phantom | American Dictionary

phantom
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfæn·təm/
something that appears or seems to exist but is not real or is imagined
A phantom is also a ghost.

Examples of phantom

phantom
The interface is parameterized by an encoding, via phantom types, of the subtyping hierarchy.
Once more he starts, turns in a flash because he wants to protect himself against the phantom behind him, and - vanishes.
Daily checks by radiographers on the unit can be done quickly and easily with a cube phantom (which assumes the couch to be level).
The researchers developed a standardized protocol using different imaging machines, utilizing both a structural and a living phantom to calibrate the machines.
Panning over the scene, the camera glides towards a place where the movie's acousmatic phantom will be caught within the safest vessel of all.
One centre indicated that they investigated large errors by means of phantom set-up.
This study was experimental and performed using a cylindrical phantom.
This "phantom types" technique, where user-defined restrictions are reflected in the constrained types of values and functions, underlies many interesting uses of type systems.
The dual phantom of the side-by-side complex cussedness and orderliness of nature has been in vogue from early times.
Using a suitable phantom, it is possible to assess a number of standard image quality characteristics.
For a bidder the auction system offers an optional "phantom" bidding service, called proxy bidding, which is equivalent to initialisation of a buying agent.
The phantom includes a 'flood field' module for image uniformity assessment.
His generosity prompts an incredible event: the mysterious reconnection of the dead body-part to a phantom form.
It is not an implausible position on its own, but it seems to be in conflict with the case of paralyzed phantom limb patients.
Pitches that exceed the piano's tessitura hover, canopy-like, over the resonance: phantom pitches produced through the interaction of harmonics.
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