Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word INCUBATE

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Definitions of INCUBATE

1. (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
2. (transitive, figurative) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.

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Examples of Using INCUBATE in a Sentence

• Conceived in Tahiti, Hiiaka was carried in the form of an egg to Hawaii by her sister Pele, who kept the egg with her at all times to incubate it.
• Both members of the pair help to build the nest, incubate the eggs (generally two per clutch), and feed the hatched young.
• Both birds incubate the eggs for around 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when 7-8 weeks old.
• Temminck's stints have an intriguing breeding and parental care system in which males and female parents incubate separate clutches, typically in different locations.
• One egg is laid per day, and females begin incubating eggs before the clutch is complete, while males do not incubate.
• They are often kept as ornamental fowl or pet chickens by backyard keepers, and are also commonly used to incubate and raise the offspring of other chickens and waterfowl like ducks, geese and game birds such as quail and pheasants.
• Both sexes, but mainly the female, incubate for 12–15 days to hatching; the chicks fledge after another 15 days.
• An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
• Savo Island is known for the "egg fields" of the megapode, a bird which lays its eggs here and buries them in the warm sand to incubate.
• In captivity the clutch size is four to six eggs, the incubation period is 22 to 25 days, both sexes incubate the clutch, and fledging occurs about seven weeks after hatch.
• ISRO has opened Space Technology Incubation Centres (S-TIC) at premier technical universities in India which will incubate startups to build applications and products in tandem with the industry and for use in future space missions.
• Bacterial TD typically begins abruptly, but Cryptosporidium may incubate for seven days, and Giardia for 14 days or more, before symptoms develop.
• It has also helped incubate a number of related topics, including design patterns, refactoring, aspect-oriented programming, model-driven engineering, agile software development, and domain specific languages.
• The reasons for this include: (1) a single nest opening means that incubating females may be unable to escape from invading predators and will also be killed, (2) because only females incubate, predation may cause a biased sex ratio, (3) their relatively long nesting period (when compared to other passerines) increases their vulnerability to predation, and (4) the chicks tend to be noisy and therefore more attractive to predators.
• Some of the words which entered English at this time are: apparatus, aqueous, carnivorous, component, corpuscle, data, experiment, formula, incubate, machinery, mechanics, molecule, nucleus, organic, ratio, structure, vertebra.
• Although techno-progressivism is the stance which contrasts with bioconservatism in the biopolitical spectrum, both techno-progressivism and bioconservatism, in their more moderate expressions, share an opposition to unsafe, unfair, undemocratic forms of technological development, and both recognize that such developmental modes can facilitate unacceptable recklessness and exploitation, exacerbate injustice and incubate dangerous social discontent.
• In 2014, zookeepers at Wingham Wildlife Park, in Kent, UK, gave an egg that had been abandoned by its mother after the father refused to help incubate it to a Humboldt penguin male same-sex pair called Jumbs and Kermit.
• However, this can just as easily be counter-argued by the possibility that Adam X is a test tube baby, like his possible nephews X-Man and Stryfe, and in-vitro fertilization and ectogenesis have been shown to indeed be a common practice for the Shi'ar, who, even if they have the ability to give birth to live young, also incubate their own eggs in public hatcheries (which were shown to be a prime target of the Phalanx, when they once invaded the Empire).
• Although large quantities of fry will incubate in waters of low hardness, most of the fry may soon contract non-infectious, constitutional dropsy, and die within a short time.
• The Micronesian scrubfowl and some other megapodes are the only birds known to incubate their eggs using volcanic heat.

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