Zombie vs Robot - What's the difference?
zombie | robot |
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.
* 1976 , CX:ii, pages
(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 , "
(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.
* 2010 , Tim Webb, The Guardian , 16 May 2010:
(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
* 2010 , Tom Chivers and Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph , 26 Jan 2010:
(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.
* Murray N. Rothbard, Making Economic Sense (page xiv)
(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman ).
(surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
A style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot
As nouns the difference between zombie and robot
is that zombie is zombie while robot is .zombie
English
(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
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.
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?
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
robot
English
(wikipedia robot)Noun
(en noun)- It's painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots , equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.
- The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.
- Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify.