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单词 zombie
释义

zombie

See also: Zombie

English

Alternative forms

  • zombi
  • zomby (rare)
  • zumbi (uncommon)

Etymology

First attested in 1871.From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”). Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.May have come through Louisiana Creole French [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzɒmbi/
  • (General American) enPR: zŏmʹbē, IPA(key): /ˈzɑmbi/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒmbi
  • Hyphenation: zom‧bie

Noun

zombie (plural zombies)

  1. (voodoo, fiction) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
    Synonyms: ghoul, living dead, walker, walking dead, (slang) zed
    • 1943, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, I Walked with a Zombie:
      Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: SSV Normandy:
      Ashley Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though.
      Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?
    • 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
      The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.
  2. (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person. [1936]
  3. (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
    After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
  4. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.[1]
    Synonym: intellectual prostitute
  5. (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.[2]
    • 1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
      9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.
  6. (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
  7. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
    • 1976, Walter Becker; Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:
      She takes the taxi to the good hotel / Bon marché as far as she can tell / She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell
    • 1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 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.
  8. (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.[3]
    • 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?
  9. (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
    • 1980, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:
      Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
  10. (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
    Synonyms: p-zombie, philosophical zombie

Derived terms

Terms derived from "zombie"
  • antizombie
  • xanbie
  • zimbo
  • zombic
  • zombically
  • zombie cell
  • zombieless
  • zombielike
  • zombify/zombification
  • zombieness
  • zomboid
  • zombyish
  • (business):
    • zombie bank
    • zombie S&L
    • zombie institution
    • zombie company
    • zombie business
    • zombie car
    • zombie computer
    • zombie debtor
    • zombie organization
  • (philosophy):
    • zombie hypothesis
    • zombie lie
    • zombie statistic
    • 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
  • (paleontology):
    • zombie taxon
  • (dance):
    • zombie dance
  • (fiction):
    • zombie apocalypse
    • zombie film
    • zombie genre
  • (nature):
    • zombie fire

Translations

References

  1. EE Times, "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
  2. Maurice J. Bach The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, 1986. See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
  3. The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzombiː]
  • IPA(key): [ˈzombɪɛ]

Noun

zombie n (also sometimes feminine or masculine)

  1. zombie

Declension

Declension of zombie
singularplural
nominativezombiezombie
genitivezombie/zombiehozombií
dativezombii/zombiemuzombiím
accusativezombii/zombiehozombie
vocativezombiezombie
locativezombii/zombiemzombiích
instrumentalzombií/zombiemzombiemi

Synonyms

  • zombík
  • nemrtvý

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɔm.bi/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: zom‧bie

Noun

zombie m (plural zombies, diminutive zombietje n)

  1. zombie

Derived terms

  • smombie

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzombi/, [ˈzo̞mbi]

Noun

zombie

  1. Alternative form of zombi

Declension

Inflection of zombie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
nominativezombiezombiet
genitivezombienzombieiden
zombieitten
partitivezombietazombieita
illativezombieenzombieihin
singularplural
nominativezombiezombiet
accusativenom.zombiezombiet
gen.zombien
genitivezombienzombieiden
zombieitten
partitivezombietazombieita
inessivezombiessazombieissa
elativezombiestazombieista
illativezombieenzombieihin
adessivezombiellazombieilla
ablativezombieltazombieilta
allativezombiellezombieille
essivezombienazombieina
translativezombieksizombieiksi
instructive—zombiein
abessivezombiettazombieitta
comitative—zombieineen
Possessive forms of zombie (type valtio)
possessorsingularplural
1st personzombienizombiemme
2nd personzombiesizombienne
3rd personzombiensa

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zɔ̃.bi/
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

zombie

  1. Alternative spelling of zombi
  2. feminine singular of zombi

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zom.bi/
  • Rhymes: -ombi

Noun

zombie m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. Alternative spelling of zombi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From a Bantu language, via English zombie.

Noun

zombie m (definite singular zombien, indefinite plural zombier, definite plural zombiene)

  1. a zombie

See also

  • zombi (Nynorsk) (although the spelling "zombie" is apparently also used)

References

  • “zombie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Alternative forms

  • zombi

Etymology

Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɔm.bi/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔmbi
  • Syllabification: zom‧bie

Noun

zombie m anim (indeclinable)

  1. (voodoo) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own)
  2. (fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)
  3. (film) zombie film
  4. (computing) zombie (computer affected by malware)

Further reading

  • zombie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • zombie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.

Noun

zombie m or f by sense (plural zombies)

  1. zombie (the undead)
    Synonyms: morto-vivo, (Brazil) zumbi

Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzombi̯e]

Noun

zombie m (genitive singular zombieho, nominative plural zombieovia, genitive plural zombieov, declension pattern of kuli)

  1. zombie

Declension

Declension of zombie
singularplural
nominativezombiezombieovia
genitivezombiehozombieov
dativezombiemuzombieom
accusativezombiehozombieov
locativezombiemzombieoch
instrumentalzombiemzombieami

Synonyms

  • zombi m
  • zombia f

References

  • zombie in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

zombie m (plural zombies)

  1. Alternative spelling of zombi

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English zombie, from a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔmbɪ/

Noun

zombie c

  1. zombie

Declension

Declension of zombie 
SingularPlural
IndefiniteDefiniteIndefiniteDefinite
Nominativezombiezombienzombierzombierna
Genitivezombieszombienszombierszombiernas
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