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Zombie vs Shirt - What's the difference?

zombie | shirt |

As nouns the difference between zombie and shirt

is that zombie is zombie while shirt is an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

As a verb shirt is

to cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

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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    shirt

    English

    (wikipedia shirt)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
  • * Addison
  • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts .
  • * Bishop Fisher
  • She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.}}
  • a member of the shirt-wearing team.
  • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
  • (Dryden)