Что (кто) такое Incubate - определение
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Incubate; Incubal; Incubation (disambiguation); Incubated; Incubates; Incubating
Incubate
·vi & ·vt To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to Brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
incubate
(incubates, incubating, incubated)
1.
When birds incubate their eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out.
The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.
VERB: V n, also V
• incubation
Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs.
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2.
When a germ in your body incubates or is incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill.
The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.
VERB: V, also V n
• incubation
The illness has an incubation period of up to 11 days.
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incubate
['??kj?be?t]
¦ verb
1. (of a bird) sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching.
2. develop (something, especially an infectious disease) slowly without outward or perceptible signs.
Derivatives
incubation noun
incubative adjective
incubatory '??kj?be?t(?)ri adjective
Origin
C17: from L. incubat-, incubare 'lie on'.
Примеры произношения для Incubate
1. ADAM ABRAMOWITZ: Yeah, incubate.
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2. SPEAKER 1: Incubate.
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3. these things incubate.
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4. did not incubate Google.
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5. enough time to really incubate.
Building An Unconventional Company _ Zim Ugochukwu _ Talks at Google
Примеры употребления для Incubate
1. Rapid HIV test swabs incubate at the Iris House in New York in 2007.
2. Condor eggs incubate for 57 days, meaning the chick could hatch any day.
3. "We can‘t tell you how accurate our HIV data is." HIV can incubate for years.
4. It helped incubate bubbly Canto–pop music and spawn a generation of film directors.
5. And the Israeli occupation that ended in 2000 helped incubate the myths and mystique that Hezbollah draws on today.