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phan·tom

(făn′təm)

1. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition.

2. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion: phantoms of a disturbed mind.

3. Medicine A model of a human body or body part.

adj.

1. Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom: tales of a phantom ship haunting the bay.

2. Fictitious or nonexistent, often when intended to deceive: phantom employees on the payroll; deposits in a phantom bank account.

3. Believed to be real even though illusory: a phantom pregnancy.

4. Being a phantom limb: a phantom arm.

[Middle English fantom, from Old French fantosme, probably from Vulgar Latin *phantauma, from Greek dialectal *phantagma, from Greek phantasma; see phantasm.]

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phantom

(ˈfæntəm)

a. an apparition or spectre

b. (as modifier): a phantom army marching through the sky.

2. the visible representation of something abstract, esp as appearing in a dream or hallucination: phantoms of evil haunted his sleep.

3. something apparently unpleasant or horrific that has no material form

4. (Medicine) med another name for manikin^2b

[C13: from Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma phantasm]

ˌphantoˈmatic adj

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phan•tom

(ˈfæn təm)

n.

1. an apparition or specter.

2. an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a mirage or optical illusion.

3. a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.: the phantom of fear.

adj.

4. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory: a phantom ship; an amputee with a phantom limb.

5. nonexistent; fictitious: phantom employees on the payroll.

[1250–1300; Middle English fantosme < Middle French, Old French < Latin phantasma phantasm]

phantom

- A model of a baby used in obstetric demonstration.

phantom

noun

1. spectre, ghost, spirit, shade (literary), spook (informal), apparition, wraith, revenant, phantasm Many people claimed to have seen the phantom.

2. illusion, vision, hallucination, figment, chimera, figment of the imagination In pressing for an agreement, Mr Kohl may be chasing a phantom.

adjective

1. imaginary, imagined, fictitious, illusory, nonexistent, hallucinatory a phantom pregnancy

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phantom

noun

A supernatural being, such as a ghost:

apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantasma, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant, wraith.

Informal: spook.

Regional: haunt.

Translations

شَبَح

přízrakzjevení

spøgelse

draugur, vofa

fantomsspoks

prízrak

prikazen

hayalet hortlak

幻影幽灵

phantom

[ˈfæntəm]

A. N → fantasma m

B. CPD [form, shape] → fantasmal; [bank account] → fantasma
phantom limb N → extremidad f imaginaria
phantom pregnancy N → embarazo m psicológico
phantom ship N → buque m fantasma

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

phantom

[ˈfæntəm]

n (= ghost) → fantôme m

adj

[company, organization, profit] → fantôme
phantom companies run by her relations → des sociétés fantômes dirigées par des membres de sa famille phantom limbphantom limb n → membre m fantômephantom pregnancy n → grossesse f nerveuse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

phantom

n → Phantom nt; (= ghost: esp of particular person) → Geist m; phantoms of the imagination → Fantasiegebilde pl, → Phantasiegebilde pl

adj attr (= imagined) → eingebildet; (= mysterious) → Phantom-; a phantom child/knight etc → der Geist eines Kindes/Ritters etc; phantom limb pains → Phantomschmerzen pl; phantom company → Briefkastenfirma f; phantom withdrawal (from cash dispenser) → falsche or irrtümliche Abbuchung, Falschbelastung f

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phantom

[ˈfæntəm]

1. adj → fantasma inv

2. n → fantasma m

phantom

(ˈfantəm) noun

a ghost. The castle is said to be haunted by a phantom.

phan·tom

n. fantasma.

1. fantoma, imagen mental;

2. patrón transparente del cuerpo y sus partes.

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"Then he told us that for several nights he had seen what he kept calling the black phantom. It came into the park at the stroke of midnight and glided stealthily through the trees; it appeared to him to pass through the trunks of the trees.

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"That phantom, that goat,--all smacks of magic," said one of Gringoire's neighbors.

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With its Phantom chased for evermore, By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

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The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

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Or is it this: To love those who despise us, and give one's hand to the phantom when it is going to frighten us?

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Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrapper he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses.

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As if that mental question had evoked the familiar phantom, Haldin stood suddenly before him in the room with an extraordinary completeness of detail.

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As at the waving of a magician's wand, up rose a grisly phantom -- up rose a thousand phantoms -- in many shapes, of death, or more awful shame, all flocking round about the clergyman, and pointing with their fingers at his breast!

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It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

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He knew not that a phantom of Wealth had thrown a golden hue upon its waters--nor that one of Love had sighed softly to their murmur--nor that one of Death had threatened to crimson them with his blood--all, in the brief hour since he lay down to sleep.

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She had regained her riding habit and calash from the grisly phantom, and was, in all respects, the lovely woman who had been sitting by my side at the instant of our overturn.

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"These phantoms were so far from being phantoms that they were positively clinging on the ladder," said Levin.

Noun	1.	phantom - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, spectre, specter disembodied spirit, spirit - any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings Flying Dutchman - the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day
	2.	phantom - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, shadow, apparition flying saucer, UFO, unidentified flying object - an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins Flying Dutchman - a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope ghost, specter, wraith, spectre, spook, shade - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" illusion, semblance - an erroneous mental representation
Adj.	1.	phantom - something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb" unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"