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incubate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | develop |
| Derivation | incubation |
Examples of incubate
incubate
I understood this ancient scourge could incubate for years and lead to insanity.
From the timesunion.com
Females incubate two white eggs for 18 days and the young fledge within 23 days.
From the sltrib.com
It generally is inappropriate to incubate an article without a deletion process.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett had students incubate dreams in the 1990s.
From the online.wsj.com
Others think the downturn is an ideal time to incubate other passions and retool.
From the washingtonpost.com
After they lay their eggs, females will typically incubate them until they hatch.
From the en.wikipedia.org
To that end, the park has set aside a building to incubate nanotech startups.
From the businessweek.com
This time, the park let nature take its course and didn't incubate the eggs.
From the post-gazette.com
Allow at least a week in between formation and evaluation so the brain can incubate.
From the foxbusiness.com
- Grow under conditions that promote development
- Brood: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
- Incubation is the process by which birds hatch their eggs, and to the development of the embryo within the egg. The most vital factor of incubation is the constant temperature required for its development over a specific period. ...
- Incubate is a multidisciplinary arts festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands. On June 16th, the festival changed it name into Incubate after a request by the Austin, US based festival SXSW to change its name. Between 2005 and 2008 the same festival was called ZXZW.
- To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions; To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it
- When a bird sits on its eggs to keep them warm as baby birds grow inside. Sometimes the male or female, or both, incubate the eggs. Incubation usually lasts for a week or more. Turltles and snakes will often bury their eggs to incubate underground by themselves.
- To keep eggs, organisms, or living tissue at ideal environmental conditions (such as the ideal heat level) for growth and development to occur. In birds, it involves sitting on eggs. For humans, medical technology has expanded to include things like stem cells.
- To sit on eggs, keeping them warm through the transfer of body heat. In Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, only the female incubates.
- The process of keeping eggs warm in order to hatch them.
