Zombie vs False - What's the difference?
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A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
(voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
(figuratively) An apathetic person.
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
(computing) 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.
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
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(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
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(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun zombie
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(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.zombie
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(wikipedia zombie)Noun
(zombies)- I shot a zombie'''. He was a '''zombie , Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!
- After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie .
EE Times , "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
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- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie' with him. Those ' zombies are wicked.
- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
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- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
Synonyms
* (person that is undead) living dead, ghoul, walking dead * (information worker) intellectual prostituteDerived terms
(Terms derived from "zombie") * antizombie * zimbo * zombic * zombically * zombielike * zombify/zombification * (business) ** zombie bank ** ** zombie institution ** zombie company ** zombie business ** zombie organization * (philosophy) ** zombie hypothesis ** zombie world ** zombie thought experiment * (social science) ** zombie effect ** zombie walk * (computing) ** zombie network ** zombie process ** zombie client ** zombie system ** zombie program ** zombie computer ** zombie state ** zombie version ** zombie host ** zombie path ** zombie user ** zombie software * (dance) ** zombie dance * (cinema) ** zombie film ** zombie genreReferences
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