Crossword clues for incubate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incubate \In"cu*bate\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Incubated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incubating.] [L. incubatus, p. p. incubare to lie on; pref. in- in, on + cubare to lie down. Cf. Cubit, Incumbent.]
To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
To maintain (a living organism, such as microorganisms or a premature baby) under appropriate conditions, such as of temperature, humidity, or atmospheric composition, for growth; as, coliform bacteria grow best when incubated at 37[deg] C..
To develop gradually in some interior environment, until fully formed; as, the ideas for his book were incubating for two years before he began to write.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "to brood upon, watch jealously" (which also was a figurative sense of Latin incubare); 1721 as "to sit on eggs to hatch them," from Latin incubatus, past participle of incubare "to lie in or upon" (see incubation). Related: Incubated; incubating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions. 2 (context transitive English) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Incubate is an annual multidisciplinary arts festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. It takes place every September. Incubate began in 2005 as ZXZW, but changed its name in 2009 to "Incubate" after a request from the Austin, US-based festival SXSW.
The festival exhibits a diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including music, contemporary dance, film and visual arts. It brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Performances as varied as black metal, free jazz, street art and academic dance all take place alongside one another.
Besides the yearly festival the organisation also hosts regular showcases of bands under the name Incubated.
Usage examples of "incubate".
After this initial exam, the dogs were kept in quarantine for ten days to watch for incubating diseases.
For instance, gannets and guillemots incubate one egg at a time, swifts three, great tits half a dozen or more.
If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes, and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube, the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive.
Compose the parts, and you come nigh to the meaning of the Nineteenth Century: the mother of these gosling affirmatives and negatives divorced from harmony and awakened by the slight increase of incubating motion to vitality.
Besides, the way I size it up, Paula had to have been incubating inside more than a few of them by then, with stuff like stealing, maiming, raping, murder, and blowing crap up just around their respective corners.
The priests say that the ice-wyrms digest that which they drag down into their nest, or that the thing which incubates there and which they protect digests it.
I waited nervously for about ten days, thinking he might have dropped eggs that were still incubating, but no vermin appeared.
Stable lads travelling with him went home incubating grouses, to their employers' irritation.
When the new centre of personal energy has been subconsciously incubated so long as to be just ready to open into flower, 'hands off' is the only word for us, it must burst forth unaided!
By judicious additions or subtractions of material from the mound the megapode is able to keep it at the precise temperature which the eggs require in order to incubate properly.
In some bird species, such as phalaropes and Spotted Sandpipers, it's the male that does the work of incubating the eggs and rearing the chicks, while the female goes in search of another male to inseminate her again and to rear her next clutch.
But once the six or so brown-spotted eggs were laid and incubated, and the young hatched and reared, the couple would go their separate ways again to search tree trunks within their territory for insects and make the woods resound with their harsh laughing call.
Then, for a hundred thousand years, the ceaseless ocean would tear at the exposed shelf of the continents, grinding rocks into sand and incubating new life.
If incubated with carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light, it grew steadily until all carbon dioxide had been consumed.