Word Finder - phantom

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A ghost or apparition.

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Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.

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A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.

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(medical imaging) A test object.

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Illusive.

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Fictitious or nonexistent.

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a phantom limb

The phantom shook his head in silent objection.

The story got really scary when it talked about the phantom that was seen in the old barn.

The phantom pointed to the pouch with the food cubes.

The phantom looked at her, then past her.

The phantom government maintained some appearance of power and dignity.

The odd sense of someone following – a sign she now knew was the phantom trailing them - returned.

The phantom of Andre appeared to her right again, keeping pace with her.  She slowed to draw a heavy knife.  It slowed with her.

There was no way she was sleeping tonight, even if she didn't feel any threat from the phantom.  She definitely didn't feel safe without Gabriel there.  She hesitated before going to where the ghost indicated, not wanting to continue without Gabe.  Popping a food cube, Katie huddled in the hollow of the tree and waited.

By chasing largely phantom rightwing allies, the SWP will quickly alienate the few real members Respect has outside its own ranks.

Let it be observed that the "honourable persons of the monarch's kingdom" whom the leech Philip had met with in the East must have been the representatives of some real power, and not of a phantom.

The familiar voice – Death's voice – made Katie stop.  She watched Gabe hack down another slithering branch.  The Andre phantom stood nearby.  He pointed in a different direction once more.

Katie's throat tightened, and the knife slipped.  She drew a shaky breath and glanced around for Andre again.  The damned phantom had lured her away from Gabriel and left her to her fate.  She was a fool.

A deep dejection followed this phantom ray of hope.

There was no way she was sleeping tonight, even if she didn't feel any threat from the phantom.

The phantom stayed with Katie throughout the night and into the first light of morning.  Katie didn't sleep, not with the creepy phantom and no sign of Gabriel.  She huddled in the hollow of the tree by the lake, praying for Gabe to reappear.

Andre appeared before her suddenly, and she stopped.  The phantom looked at her then past her.  Katie glanced back without seeing anything.  The phantom had moved when her gaze returned to where he had been.  He stood a short distance away, pointed to a small hollow in a tree then took up a protective position several feet away, watching the way she'd come.

Midmorning warmed the world around her, and she rose finally.  The phantom disappeared.  Katie turned towards the lake and drew a deep breath.  She would find her way back to Rhyn.

The Andre phantom stood behind Gabriel, pointing again for her to leave.

Katie rolled her eyes at the gummy cubes before popping several into her mouth.  The Andre phantom settled on the opposite side of the fire from her, mirroring her cross-legged position.

It didn't, though it did motion to her belt.  She looked down at the knife Gabriel had given her.  Uncertain, she offered it to the phantom, who shook its head.  He motioned to the knife then looked around them.

The phantom Andre was squatting beside her when Katie awoke.  She jerked, surprised at how close he was.  He was real enough for her to feel his body heat, even if he was invisible to everyone but her and moved without a sound.  The fact that Gabe was sleeping a short distance away didn't seem to faze the ghost.  Instead, it pointed to something it had written in the dirt beside her.

Katie followed, her eyes on Andre.  The phantom motioned for her to follow him instead and waved her towards the direction she recognized as leading back to the lake.

The phantom shook his head in silent objection.  Katie ignored him and cradled her forehead in her hands.  She ate another food cube and sighed.  When she looked up, Andre was gone.  Since they'd left the demon-Gabriel, Andre had disappeared twice before, but not for long.  She rested her head against the tree behind her and waited.

He didn't appear.  Unease filled her, and she wondered if the phantom would leave her there alone, even knowing she was helpless without it.  Katie ate a water cube and rose, starting off in the direction Andre had been headed.

Katie's gaze dropped to Deidre's hands.  They looked normal, but so had Gabriel's.  Andre had warned her about the Gabriel-demon.  She looked around, wanting to believe the phantom would reappear if it sensed she was in danger.  The Gabriel-demon had appeared distant, as if uncomfortable acting out its role.  Deidre had been open and warm towards her, like a real human.

The design of the phantom assures both films and alanine dosimeters are accurately located at the same point on the depth dose curve.

Not far away is the pub of the same name, which has been haunted in the past by phantom footsteps.

A phantom electrical gremlin struck during Saturday's race, knocking the popular Californian out of the race.

You wait ages for a phantom hound, and then two come along!

Anecdotal evidence suggests that pain can be reduced by activity in the brain involved in imagined movement of the phantom limb.

The phantom power is used to power condenser microphones.

Help its cable many insurers have cheapest car to ensure for teen standard does not four-channel mixer phantom.

Amitriptyline has been shown to help in treatment of migraine and tension headache, post herpetic neuralgia as well as phantom limb pain.

In some cases the stump neuroma is causing the phantom pain in the leg also - a type of referred pain.

The shadowy outline of the vessel exactly corresponds to the phantom percepts which were the subject of the previous section.

Like the Phantom Menace DVD before it, the Clones DVD features menus themed around locations found in the film.

Simply a vindictive young woman or some vengeful phantom from his past?

The most common sign of paranormal activity is a phantom sound.

The first seeds of Love Never Dies were planted in the 1990s, when Lloyd Webber and the original Phantom costume designer began to discuss the idea.

The Phantom of the Opera musical sequel reception was mixed.

He's there to help Clark stop Lex from finding the last wraith form the Phantom Zone.

In the real world, it was released in 2002, just three years after The Phantom Menace.

Scotland's most amusing and ashen faced phantom, Adam Lyal (deceased) guides you through the historic setting of St Andrews town.

The nose radome came from the Reconnaissance pod supplied in the Matchbox Phantom kit.

Peter Cousens played the title role of " Phantom.

Unintentional battery drain is avoided through use of automatic Phantom power detection and automatic power shut-off on disconnection of the input signal.

Whether this is a phantom white stag or a real one is not recorded.

When these proposals were passed (apparently in a packed assembly outside the walls), a Constituent Assembly of loo was elected, nominally by the 5000, who as yet were a mere phantom body, in point of fact by the leading conspirators.

The man who impeaches the knowing faculties because of the fact of relation which they involve is pursuing the phantom of an apprehension which, as Lotze expresses it, does not apprehend things, but is itself things; he is desiring not to know but to be the things themselves.

But there were many malcontents, principally among the Lithuanians, who solicited the intervention of Russia in favour of the elector of Saxony, son of the late king, and in October 1733 a Russian army appeared before Warsaw and compelled a phantom diet (it consisted of but 15 senators and Augustus 500 of the szlachta) to proclaim Augustus III.