A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
The form of an object as seen by an observer.
A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
Ghost imaging.
The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.