Zombied vs Zombie - What's the difference?
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(computing) In a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).
* 2004 , Cameron Hughes, ?Tracey Hughes, Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++ (page 46)
* 2011 , James M. Stewart, CompTIA Security+ Review Guide: Exam SY0-301 (page 133)
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.
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(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
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As an adjective zombied
is (computing) in a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).As a noun zombie is
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(-)- A process that is unable to continue executing and cannot exit the system is zombied . A zombied process does not use any system resources but it still maintains an entry in the process table.
- In this manner, the victim may be able to discover the one or many zombied systems that are causing the DoS attack but probably won't be able to track down the actual attacker.
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(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
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- 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.
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- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?