Zombie

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  zombie
       n 1: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a
            supernatural force [syn: {zombi}, {the living dead}]
       2: (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a
          dead body [syn: {zombi}, {zombi spirit}, {zombie spirit}]
       3: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped


          especially in West Indies [syn: {zombi}, {snake god}]
       4: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic
          way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn: {automaton},
           {zombi}]
       5: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot
          liqueur [syn: {zombi}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "zombie":
     Masan, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, banshee,
     boob, case, character, chump, clod, control, departed spirit,
     disembodied spirit, dolt, duck, dullard, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon,
     form, ghost, goon, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum,
     immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, larva,
     lemures, manes, materialization, moron, nitwit, oaf, oddball,
     oddity, oni, original, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist,
     presence, quiz, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit,
     specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, theophany,
     unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul,
     wraith
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  zombie n. 1. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet
     relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't
     executed a `wait(2)' for it yet). These can be seen in `ps(1)' listings
     occasionally. Compare {orphan}. 2. A machine, especially someone's {home
     box}, that has been cracked and is being used as part of a second-stage
     attack by miscreants trying to mask their home IP address. Especially
     used of machines being exploited in large gangs for a mechanized
     denial-of-service attack like Tribe Flood Network; the image that goes
     with this is of a veritable army of zombies mindlessly doing the bidding
     of a necromancer.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  zombie
       
          1.  {zombie process}.
       
          2.  A {ghost}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1997-10-08)