different between ghosting vs blocking

English

Etymology

ghost +? -ing

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??st??

Noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

1. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
2. (electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. (computing) Ghost imaging.
4. 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.
5. (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
7. (slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]

8. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

Translations

Verb

ghosting

1. present participle of ghost

Further reading

• ghosting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Verb

blocking

1. present participle of block

Noun

blocking (countable and uncountable, plural blockings)

1. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     Miss H.'s voice was clear and intelligible, although it alternated between vocal blockings and extreme vocal hurry, every clause being jetted out suddenly, and rapidly decaying into aphonia.

2. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
3. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
4. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.

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Anagrams

• gin block