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zombie | republican |

As nouns the difference between zombie and republican

is that zombie is a snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere while republican is someone who favors a republic as a form of government.

As an adjective republican is

advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.

zombie

English

(wikipedia zombie)

Noun

(zombies)
  • 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.
  • I shot a zombie'''. He was a '''zombie , Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!
  • (figuratively) An apathetic person.
  • (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
  • After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie .
  • An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement. EE Times , "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
  • (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.
  • * 1976 , CX:ii, pages 8] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8LpWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22drank+zombies%22&dq=%22drank+zombies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uflUT6fRCIuY0QWBptCoCQ&redir_esc=y 380:
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • * 1944 , " Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
  • Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
  • (philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
  • Synonyms

    * (person that is undead) living dead, ghoul, walking dead * (information worker) intellectual prostitute

    Derived 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 genre

    References

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    republican

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 222:
  • Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements ).
  • Of or belonging to a republic.
  • * Macaulay
  • The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
  • * 1791 , James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson :
  • Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican . One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
  • A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
  • See also

    * anti-monarchist (1) * antiroyalist (1) * egalitarian (2) * antifascist (4) * rational (5)