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Creeper vs Zombie - What's the difference?

creeper | zombie |

As nouns the difference between creeper and zombie

is that creeper is a person or a thing who crawls or creeps while zombie is a snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.

creeper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or a thing who crawls or creeps.
  • * Burton
  • Standing waters are most unwholesome, full of mites, creepers ; slimy, muddy, unclean.
  • Often in plural, a one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
  • A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
  • A metal plate with spikes]], designed to be worn with shoes to prevent [[slip, slipping.
  • A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
  • An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
  • Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
  • Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping; especially a climbing plant of the genus .
  • * 1964 , (William Golding), (Lord of the Flies)
  • Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
  • A treecreeper.
  • (nautical) A small, four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
  • The lowest gear of a tractor or truck, also creeper gear, creeper shift.
  • A low-profile, wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle.
  • (pejorative, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
  • Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.
  • A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various twentieth-century subcultures.
  • Synonyms

    * (one who crawls) crawler * (garment) babygro, creepers, diaper shirt, infant bodysuit, snapsuit * (wheeled platform) cradle

    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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