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Zombie vs Alien - What's the difference?

zombie | alien |

As nouns the difference between zombie and alien

is that zombie is a snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere while alien is a person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

As an adjective alien is

pertaining to an alien.

As a verb alien is

to estrange; to alienate.

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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    alien

    English

    Alternative forms

    * alyaunte

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  • A foreigner residing in a country.
  • * 1773 , William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, Volume 1 (Fifth Edition) , page 372
    • An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
  • * 1831 , John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , U.S. Government
    • The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens , not owing allegiance to the United States.
  • * 2004 , Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice , Destiny Image Publishers, page 74
    • Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
  • Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
  • One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
  • * Bible, Ephes. ii. 12
    • Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.

    Synonyms

    * * See also

    Related terms

    * alienage * space alien

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to an alien.
  • Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
    • alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
    • principles alien to our religion
  • * Wordsworth
    • An alien sound of melancholy.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To estrange; to alienate.
  • (legal) To transfer the ownership of something.

    • Alternative forms

    * aliene

    Anagrams

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