Zombie vs. Ghost

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.

Ghostnoun

(dated) The spirit; the soul of man.

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghostnoun

An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.

Ghostnoun

A ghostwriter.

Ghostnoun

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

Ghostnoun

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

Ghostnoun

(theatre) An understudy.

Ghostnoun

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

Ghostnoun

The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

Ghostnoun

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

Ghostnoun

A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.

Ghostnoun

White or pale.

Ghostnoun

Transparent or translucent.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Abandoned.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) The remains of.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Substitute.

Ghostverb

To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

Ghostverb

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

Ghostverb

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

Ghostverb

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

Ghostverb

(GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

Ghostverb

To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

Ghostverb

To appear without warning; to move quickly and quietly; to slip.

Ghostverb

To kill.

Ghostverb

(slang) To break up with someone without warning or explanation; to perform an act of ghosting.

Ghostnoun

The spirit; the soul of man.

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghostverb

To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

Ghostnoun

a mental representation of some haunting experience;

Ghostnoun

a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Ghostnoun

the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

Ghostnoun

a suggestion of some quality;

Ghostverb

move like a ghost;

Ghostverb

haunt like a ghost; pursue;

Ghostverb

write for someone else;

Ghostnoun

an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image

Ghostnoun

a slight trace or vestige of something

Ghostnoun

a faint secondary image caused by a fault in an optical system, duplicate signal transmission, etc.

Ghostverb

act as ghostwriter of (a work)

Ghostverb

glide smoothly and effortlessly

Ghostverb

end a personal relationship with (someone) by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication

Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms.