Zombie vs. Ghost
Difference Between Zombie and Ghost
Zombienoun
In voodoo belief and popular folklore, a corpse that has been reanimated, especially by means of a supernatural power or spell.
Ghostnoun
The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.
Zombienoun
One who looks or behaves like an automaton.
Ghostnoun
A person's spirit or soul
was sick for months and finally gave up the ghost.Zombienoun
A computer connected to the internet and controlled by a remote unauthorized user to perform malicious tasks, without the owner being aware.
Ghostnoun
A returning or haunting memory or image.
Zombienoun
A bank or business that cannot meet its financial obligations or make new loans but has been allowed to continue operating by the government.
Ghostnoun
A slight or faint trace
just a ghost of a smile.Zombienoun
A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.
Ghostnoun
The tiniest bit
not a ghost of a chance.Zombienoun
A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueurs, and fruit juices.
Ghostnoun
An unwanted image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.
Zombienoun
A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
Ghostnoun
A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.
Zombienoun
A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
Ghostnoun
An unwanted spectral line caused by imperfections in a diffraction grating.
Zombienoun
(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
I shot a zombie. He was a zombie, Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!Ghostnoun
A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.
Zombienoun
(figuratively) An apathetic person.
Ghostnoun
(Informal) A ghostwriter.
Zombienoun
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.Ghostnoun
A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.
Zombienoun
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
Ghostnoun
A fictitious employee or business.
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.
Ghostnoun
(Physiology) A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
Zombienoun
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
Ghostverb
(Informal) To engage in ghostwriting.
Zombienoun
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
Ghostverb
To move noiselessly like a ghost
“Two young deer ghosted out of the woods” (Nancy M. Debevoise).Zombienoun
A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
Ghostverb
(Informal) To cut off all communication with someone, especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation
ghosted on him after two dates.Zombienoun
Marijuana, or similar drugs.
Ghostverb
To haunt.
Zombienoun
(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
Ghostverb
(Informal) To ghostwrite
was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive.Zombienoun
a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
Ghostverb
(Informal) To cut off all communication with (someone), especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation
“In some point in nearly every young millennial's life, they will be ghosted. And not by sad dead bodies from the graveyard, but by idiot living ones from the Internet” (Heather Dockray).Zombienoun
(voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
Ghostnoun
(dated) The spirit; the soul of man.
Zombienoun
a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
Ghostnoun
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death
Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.Zombienoun
someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way;
only an automaton wouldn't have noticedGhostnoun
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image
not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an ideaZombienoun
several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
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.
ghost slug; ghostberry; ghostflower; ghost crab; ghost batGhostnoun
Transparent or translucent.
ghost ant; ghost catfish; ghost nipper; ghost nudibranchGhostnoun
(attributive) Abandoned.
ghost town; ghost net; ghost ramp; ghost shipGhostnoun
(attributive) The remains of.
ghost cell; ghost crater; ghost imageGhostnoun
(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
ghost pain; ghost cellphone vibration; ghost island; ghost voterGhostnoun
(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
ghost rocket; ghost deer; ghost catGhostnoun
(attributive) Substitute.
ghost writer; ghost band; ghost singerGhostverb
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
a mental representation of some haunting experience;
he looked like he had seen a ghostit aroused specters from his pastGhostnoun
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;
there was a touch of sarcasm in his tonehe detected a ghost of a smile on her faceGhostverb
move like a ghost;
The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yardGhostverb
haunt like a ghost; pursue;
Fear of illness haunts herGhostverb
write for someone else;
How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
