Crossword clues for spectre
spectre
- Greenwich ghost
- Org. battled by 007
- Group opposed by 007
- Doctor No's group
- The ghost of Mrs. Muir?
- Terrorist organization fought by James Bond
- Latest film in a 24-film series
- Hallowe'en movie villain Hannibal?
- Ghostly figure
- Dr. No's org
- British spirit
- Bond opposer
- Bond film after "Skyfall"
- 24th film in the James Bond series
- 2015 James Bond film
- 2015 Bond flick
- 2015 Bond film
- Marley's ghost, for one
- Ghost of Jacob Marley?
- Dr. No's org.
- 007 movie after "Skyfall"
- A mental representation of some haunting experience
- A ghostly appearing figure
- Act I figure in "Hamlet"
- "Le ___ de la Rose," Fokine ballet
- James Bond foe
- Banquo's ghost, e.g.
- Banquo at Macbeth's banquet
- Ghost creeps eerily round back of apartment
- Evil organisation quietly residing in secret complex
- Spirit of staff having mushroom turnover
- Solo pilot's first to go in front. Cruise in jet
- Seeing first couple last, admire ghost
- Dreadful secret involving quiet ghost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. See Specter.
Specter \Spec"ter\, Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. [F. spectre, fr. L. spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look. See Spy, and cf. Spectrum.]
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Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice.
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(Zo["o]l.)
The tarsius.
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A stick insect.
Specter bat (Zo["o]l.), any phyllostome bat.
Specter candle (Zo["o]l.), a belemnite.
Specter shrimp (Zo["o]l.), a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of specter (q.v.); for spelling, see -re.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of specter English)
WordNet
n. a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, specter]
a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter]
Wikipedia
Spectre or specter usually refers to a ghost or other apparition. It may also refer to an optical illusion called a Brocken spectre.
It may also refer to:
The Spectre is a fictional character, a superhero who has appeared in numerous comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a next-issue ad in More Fun Comics #51 (Jan. 1940) and received his first story the following month, #52 (February 1940). He was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, although several sources attribute creator credit solely to Siegel, limiting Baily to being merely the artist assigned to the feature.
Spectre is Skiz Fernando, head of the Wordsound label, in his record producer, rapper and electronica artist persona.
Spectre is a 1977 made-for-television movie produced by Gene Roddenberry. It was co-written by Roddenberry and Samuel A. Peeples, and directed by Clive Donner.
Spectre is a computer game for the Apple Macintosh, developed in 1990 by Peninsula Gameworks and published in 1991 by Velocity Development. It is a 3D tank battle reminiscent of the arcade game Battlezone. Later games in the series were released for the PC and Nintendo SNES, with Spectre VR being named to a number of lists of best video games..
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the spectre is an undead creature.
Spectre is a 1982 computer game for the Apple II family of computers, written by Bob Flanagan and Scott Miller and published by Datamost.
Spectre is a Pac-Man variant in which you have to collect dots and avoid Questers. the player navigates via a split screen 2D/3D-maze.
You're marooned between the stars, and the deadly Questers are swarming through the space ports to destroy you. Think fast, act faster if you hope to survive! Only Spectre brings you a fantastic 3-D maze action ... and a special enemy locator-screen
— Spectre Advertisement
The Spectre is one aspect of the fourfold nature of the human psyche along with Humanity, Emanation and Shadow that William Blake used to explore his spiritual mythology throughout his poetry and art. As one of Blake's elements of the psyche, Spectre takes on symbolic meaning when referred to throughout his poems. According to professor Joseph Hogan, "Spectre functions to define individuals from others [...] When it is separated [from Emanation], it is reason, trying to define everything in terms of unchanging essences." Thus, according to Samuel Foster Damon, Spectre epitomizes "Reason separated from humanity" and "Self-centered selfhood" or, as Alexander S. Gourlay puts it, Spectre is "characterized by self-defensive rationalization".
Spectre appears in several of Blake's works, including Jerusalem, Milton: a poem and The Four Zoas. Because of its widespread presence in Blake's more mythological works, scholars have reflected on Spectre through multiple critical approaches including Jungian archetypal analysis, as a means of mapping Blake's mythology within intellectual history and within his own biographical experience.
Spectre is a novel by William Shatner, co-written with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, based on the television series Star Trek. The novel was released in 1998 in hardcover format. This is the first in the "Mirror Universe Saga". The story continues in Dark Victory and Preserver.
Spectre is eighth studio album by Laibach. It was released on March 3, 2014 under Mute Records.
Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second James Bond film following Skyfall, with a screenplay written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. With a budget around $245 million, it is the most expensive Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made.
The story sees Bond pitted against the global criminal organisation Spectre as he attempts to thwart their plan to launch a global surveillance network, and discovers Spectre was behind the events of the other three films starring Craig. The film marks Spectre's first appearance in an Eon Productions film since 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, with Christoph Waltz playing the organisation's leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Several recurring James Bond characters, including M, Q and Eve Moneypenny return, with the new additions of Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann, Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh and Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra.
Spectre was filmed from December 2014 to July 2015, with locations in Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco and Mexico. The film was released on 26 October 2015 in the United Kingdom on the same night as the world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London, followed by a worldwide release which included IMAX screenings. It was released in the United States one week later, on 6 November. The theme song, " Writing's on the Wall", won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the corresponding Golden Globe. Spectre grossed over a total of $880 million worldwide, the second largest unadjusted income for the series after predecessor Skyfall.
Spectre (also known as House of the Damned) is a 1996 American-Irish horror film directed by Scott Levy and starring Greg Evigan and Alexandra Paul. The film follows an American family who move into an Irish mansion haunted by a multitude of ghosts.
"Spectre" is a 2015 song by English rock band Radiohead, released as a free download on the audio distribution platform SoundCloud on 25 December 2015. On 13 May 2016, it was released as a B-side on the 7" vinyl single " Burn the Witch".
Usage examples of "spectre".
While in this timorous, jealous disposition, the cry of a plot all on a sudden struck their ears: they were wakened from their slumber: and like men affrightened and in the dark, took every figure for a spectre.
It was the same Guzman Bento who, becoming later Perpetual President, famed for his ruthless and cruel tyranny, readied his apotheosis in the popular legend of a sanguinary land-haunting spectre whose body had been carried off by the devil in person from the brick mausoleum in the nave of the Church of Assumption in Sta.
Father got up and walked out after that great battle scene when that ghostly spectre appeared standing there brooding over those two corpses in the Bloody Lane that was supposed to be Grandfather and when I said maybe that was why Father was upset with me for exploiting the family and Grandfather if he thought I wrote the script like it said in the newspaper and I asked him to read my last act he said he.
Day by day Vaughan followed Catherine around the expressways and airport perimeter roads, sometimes waiting for her in the damp cul-de-sac adjacent to our drive, at other times appearing like a spectre in the high-speed lane of the overpass, his battered car tilted over on its near-side springs.
With his elbows on the table he sat between the two empty bottles, while spectres danced in the light of the unsnuffed candle -- spectres such as Hoffmann strews over his punch-drenched pages, like black, fantastic dust.
I took time out to kick over a Blackshirt who was lumbering to his feet in our path and, although he went down fast enough, there were others all around, dark shapes looming up in the smoke mists like spectres in a graveyard.
The gigantic Brocken spectre projected from himself upon the wide horizon of his futurity.
He lives for the sake of that Brocken spectre, the reflection of himself in the human opinion.
It is quite another to class her visions with the vision of two moons seen by a drunken person, or with Brocken spectres, echoes and the like.
The steam from bowls of couscous and stews of mutton and vegetables curled up to join the thin smoke that made a light curtain about this fantasia, and from time to time, with a shrill cry of exultation, a half-naked form, all gleaming eyes and teeth and polished bronze-hued limbs, rushed out of the blackness beyond the fire, leaped through the tongues of flame and vanished like a spectre into the embrace of the night.
The spectre of Marcotte loomed in the shadows at the periphery of the case.
He stands in the midst monumentally, a land-mark of the tough and honest old Ages, with the symbolic alphabet of striking arms and running legs, our early language, scrawled over his person, and the glorious first flint and arrow-head for his crest: at once the spectre of the Kitchen-midden and our ripest issue.
He wanted to work at a single project instead of half a dozen, to pick a direction and stick with it, but so far writing had earned him nothing, and the spectre of hitting forty in a ratty cardigan and a damp flat surrounded by thousands of press clippings filled him with depression.
Through this dark avenue I had a distant view of the cloisters, with the figure of an old verger in his black gown moving along their shadowy vaults, and seeming like a spectre from one of the neighboring tombs.
Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.