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Mummy vs. Zombie — What's the Difference?

Mummy vs. Zombie — What's the Difference?

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Mummy

A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the term to bodies deliberately embalmed with chemicals, but the use of the word to cover accidentally desiccated bodies goes back to at least 1615 AD (see the section Etymology and meaning).

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.

Mummy

The dead body of a human or animal that has been embalmed and prepared for burial, as according to the practices of the ancient Egyptians.

Zombie

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

Mummy

A withered, shrunken, or well-preserved body that resembles an embalmed body.
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Zombie

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

Mummy

Mother.

Zombie

In voodoo belief and popular folklore, a corpse that has been reanimated, especially by means of a supernatural power or spell.

Mummy

(countable) An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.

Zombie

One who looks or behaves like an automaton.

Mummy

A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.

Zombie

A computer connected to the internet and controlled by a remote unauthorized user to perform malicious tasks, without the owner being aware.

Mummy

Any naturally preserved human or animal body.

Zombie

A bank or business that cannot meet its financial obligations or make new loans but has been allowed to continue operating by the government.

Mummy

A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
Mummy brown

Zombie

A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.

Mummy

A pulp.

Zombie

A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueurs, and fruit juices.

Mummy

A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.

Zombie

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

Mummy

A sort of wax used in grafting.

Zombie

(figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.

Mummy

Mother.

Zombie

(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.

Mummy

To mummify.

Zombie

An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

Mummy

A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.

Zombie

(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.

Mummy

Dried flesh of a mummy.

Zombie

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

Mummy

A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; - formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.

Zombie

A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.

Mummy

A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).

Zombie

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

Mummy

A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

Zombie

Marijuana, or similar drugs.

Mummy

One whose affections and energies are withered.

Zombie

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

Mummy

To embalm; to mummify.

Zombie

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

Mummy

Informal terms for a mother

Zombie

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

Mummy

A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)

Zombie

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

Zombie

Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way;
Only an automaton wouldn't have noticed

Zombie

Several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

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