ZAIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zaire mean? 

• ZAIRE (noun)
  The noun ZAIRE has 2 senses:

1. the basic unit of money in Zaire

2. a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

  Familiarity information: ZAIRE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZAIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Zaire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("zaire" is a kind of...):

Zairese monetary unit (monetary unit in Zaire)

Meronyms (parts of "zaire"):

likuta (100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Zaire"):

Goma (a city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda)

Lake Edward (a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda)

Kivu; Lake Kivu (a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda)

Kasai; Kasai River; River Kasai (a river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo)

Congo; Congo River; Zaire River (a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic)

Nyiragongo; Nyamuragira (an active volcano in eastern Congo)

Elisabethville; Lubumbashi (a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville)

Kinshasa; Leopoldville (the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville)

Kananga; Luluabourg (a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was Luluabourg)

Meronyms (members of "Zaire"):

Chiluba; Luba (a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo)

Congolese (a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo)

Zairean; Zairese (a native or inhabitant of Zaire)

Holonyms ("Zaire" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Derivation:

Zairean (of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people)

 Context examples 

The rVSV-ZEVOB ebola vaccine can provide up to 100% protection against onset of Zaire ebolavirus, one of the two most common strains of ebola, responsible for most of the cases observed in humans.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)

Treating wild-type mice with the antibodies after exposure to the Zaire ebolavirus appeared to have a protective effect, as did treating the altered mice after exposure to Sudan ebolavirus.

(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)

In animal studies, two of these antibodies provided substantial protection against disease caused by Zaire ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus and Sudan ebolavirus, the three species known to cause fatal human illness.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

Collaborators administered a lethal dose of Zaire ebolavirus to 4 rhesus macaques, then treated 3 of the animals, beginning a day later, with a mixture of the mAbs for 3 consecutive days.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

To find similar broadly protective human antibodies, researchers surveyed 349 human monoclonal antibodies derived from the blood of one survivor of the recent West African Ebola outbreak, which was caused by Zaire ebolavirus.

(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)

Antibodies isolated from two survivors bound to an essential virus protein, called glycoprotein or GP, from Zaire, Bundibugyo and Sudan Ebola virus species, and prevented the viruses from entering host cells.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

Although it is harmless to humans, it has been engineered to express one of the same surface marker proteins as the Zaire ebolavirus, which trains the host's immune system to recognize both the vaccine and the true virus.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)