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zombic | zombie | Derived terms |

Zombic is a derived term of zombie.


As a adjective zombic

is relating to zombies.

As a noun zombie is

a snake god or fetish in religions of west africa and elsewhere.

zombic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • relating to zombies
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1991 , title = The Madness Season , first = C. S. , last = Friedman , authorlink = Celia S. Friedman , publisher = Daw , locatios = New York , isbn = 978-1101174173 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=eB1Rlfr0ea8C&pg=PT195&dq=zombic , passage = For a time I wasn't sure of their purpose—neither, it seemed, were they—and I dreaded the possible need for another zombic performance. }}
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  • , date = 1999-11-28 , chapter = The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition? , first = Daniel , last = Dennett , authorlink = Daniel Dennett , published_date = 2005 , publisher = Massachusetts Institute of Technology , location = Cambridge, London , isbn = 978-0262042253 , lccn = 2004048681 , oclc = 474825500 , id = , page = 14 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=UAW5IlG7i00C&pg=PA14&dq=zombic , title = Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness , passage = there has been a gradual process of distillation, leaving just about all the reactionaries, for all their disagreements among themselves, united in the conviction that there is a real difference between a conscious person and a perfect zombie''–let's call that intuition the ''Zombic Hunch''–leading them to the thesis of ''Zombism'': that ''the fundamental flaw in any mechanistic theory of consciousness is that it cannot account for this important difference . }}
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  • , date = 2010-11-09 , title = Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe , first = Martin , last = Bojowald , authorlink = Martin Bojowald , publisher = Knopf , isbn = 978-0307594259 , lccn = 2010015937 , id = , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jhIMOuwyZtAC&pg=PT56&dq=zombic , passage = The atoms are in a superposition of both possibilities, and the poor cat, too, is hanging on in a zombic combination of life and death. }}
  • resembling a zombie
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  • , year = 1984 , title = The Void Captain's Tale , first = Norman , last = Spinrad , authorlink = Norman Spinrad , page = 111 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=EO_XVi_fnCUC&pg=PA111&dq=zombic , passage = As fortune and custom's use would have it, few were the witnesses to my zombic march, and none to see this gaunt-eyed ghost slip inside his Pilot's cabin, though not through any worldly care of mine. }}
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  • , date = 2007-11-06 , title = Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York , first = Adam , last = Gopnik , authorlink = Adam Gopnik , publisher = Random House , isbn = 9781400075751 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_kCC8IZ77p0C&pg=PT296&dq=zombic , passage = She explained to me instantly that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even “zombic ” ones that did not reciprocate affection, and that a pair of Japanese psychologists, Hatano and Inagaki, had done studies of how children develop intuitive theories of biology by having pets. }}
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  • , date = 2008-05-01 , title = A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace It's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen , first = Gary , last = Buslik , authorlink = Gary Buslik , publisher = Travelers' Tales , location = Palo Alto , isbn = 9781932361582 , lccn = 2008003087 , id = , page = 2 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=DyAN0OjOpwIC&pg=PA2&dq=zombic , passage = I've always thought it more sensible than the zombic passivity we associate with Caucasian moviegoing—not unlike the difference between a staid Presbyterian church service and a rip-roaring Baptist get-down. }}

    Derived terms

    * zombically

    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

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