Incubate
11incubate — verb a) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions. b) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it …
12incubate — verb Incubate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑egg …
13incubate — [18] Latin incubāre, the source of English incubate, meant literally ‘lie down on’. It was based on the verb cubāre ‘lie’, which also produced English concubine and cubicle. The notion of ‘lying on eggs to hatch them’ seems later to have fed back …
14incubate — [18] Latin incubāre, the source of English incubate, meant literally ‘lie down on’. It was based on the verb cubāre ‘lie’, which also produced English concubine and cubicle. The notion of ‘lying on eggs to hatch them’ seems later to have fed back …
15Incubate (festival) — Incubate Genre Rock, Rock alternatif, Rock indépendant, Dance, Punk rock, Musique électronique, Reggae, Folk, Metal, Art, cinéma, danse. Lieu Tilburg Pays Bas Période Septembre Date de …
16Incubate Lactate Perambulate — Artiste Angela Bulloch Année 2006 Type Cuivre, néons Technique Installation lumineuse Dimensions (H × L × l) 0 50 m × 13  …
17incubate — to hold eggs during development …
18incubate — incubative, adj. /in kyeuh bayt , ing /, v., incubated, incubating. v.t. 1. to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching. 2. to hatch (eggs), as by sitting upon them or by artificial heat. 3. to maintain at a favorable temperature and in other… …
19incubate — in·cu·bate iŋ kyə .bāt, in vb, bat·ed; bat·ing vt 1) to maintain (as eggs, embryos of animals, or bacteria) under prescribed and usu. controlled conditions favorable for hatching or development esp. in an incubator 2) to maintain (a chemically… …
20incubate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. hatch, brood, sit, gestate. See reproduction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. hatch, brood, breed, nurture; see nurse , produce 1 …
