Sekirov Dictionary

incubate

/ˈɪŋkjʊbeɪt/

verb 2
noun 1
forms 3

verb2

•
To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- The places where the birds are nesting are interesting spots to visit. Both parents incubate and the scene is animated as the birds fly about in all directions. — 1907
•
(figurative) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
- It was a habit he developed, of incubating and maturing his thought upon a subject, and of then rushing into the type-writer with it. — 1908

noun1

A preparation, or material, that has been incubated.

forms

incubated · incubating · incubates

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