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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.

See also related terms for model.

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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"

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

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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

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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"Bathing" becomes "a baptism I could not receive" and "a virginal country I had left long ago." In "Phantom Mares," she takes her daughters to a horse-breeding barn "as if to show them this, this sex in this way, might stave them from harm," only to realize belatedly that the "phantom mare" (a contraption the stallion mounts) summons up the "image of what harms you most -- the stranger leaning over you in winter leaves."