Zombie (novel)
WordNet
noun
(1) Several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
(2) Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
"Only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"
(3) A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
(4) A god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
(5) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A snake god in religions of West Africa and elsewhere
- A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
- A formerly deceased person who returns to life to attack the living.
- An apathetic person.
- A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
- A person under the influence of mood or behavior altering prescription drugs.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
- A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- A drink of rum and fruit juices
- Nickname for a conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time, 6 Nov.,
- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
- 1944, "Time for Decision," Time, 6 Nov.,
- A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.