Vampire vs. Zombie

Vampirenoun

A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.

Vampirenoun

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition Systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

Vampirenoun

A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Vampirenoun

A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.

Vampireverb

To drain of energy or resources.

Vampirenoun

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies.

Vampirenoun

Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Vampirenoun

Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla; also called vampire bat. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

Vampirenoun

Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially Vampyrus spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.

Vampirenoun

(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

Vampire

A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive.

Zombienoun

A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.

Zombienoun

A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.

Zombienoun

(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.

Zombienoun

(figuratively) An apathetic person.

Zombienoun

(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

Zombienoun

An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

Zombienoun

(computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.

Zombienoun

(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

Zombienoun

A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.

Zombienoun

A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.

Zombienoun

Marijuana, or similar drugs.

Zombienoun

(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

Zombienoun

a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force

Zombienoun

(voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body

Zombienoun

a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies

Zombienoun

someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way;

Zombienoun

several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

Zombienoun

a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions.

Zombienoun

(in popular fiction) a person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought, which feeds on human flesh

Zombienoun

a person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings.

Zombienoun

a hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness.

Zombienoun

a computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities.

Zombienoun

a cocktail consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.

Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works.