Incubate

Definition: Incubate

Incubate

Verb

1. Develop under favorable conditions, such as germs and bacteria.

2. Sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Incubate \In"cu*bate\, intransitive verb. t. [imperative past participle Incubated; present participle verb or noun Incubating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Incubate

Crosswords: Incubate

Health

Young puppies and kittens contribute most to contamination of soil by eggs that must incubate for some time in the soil. Almost all dogs are infected at birth. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Afrikaans

broei (sit). (various references)

Albanian

rri klloçkë (sit), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), ngroh (calorify, hatch, heat, warm), është në periudhë inkubacioni. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حضن البيض للتفقيس, ‏حضن البيض, ‏تحضين (brood), ‏ترخم الدجاجة, ‏طور (age, develop, evolve, improve, phase, promote, stage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам в инкубатор, отглеждам (breed, bring up, cradle, cultivate, fledge, flower, grow, nourish, nurse, raise, rear, tend), мътя (brew, brood, cover, hatch, hover, rile, roil, sit), измътвам се, измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Chinese 

孵化 (hatched, hatching, Incubated, Incubating). (various references)

Czech

inkubovat, vysedìt, sedìt na vejcích (brood), formovat se. (various references)

Dutch

koesteren (coddle, pamper, pet, sit), broeden op (sit), broeden (sit). (various references)

Esperanto

kovi (sit). (various references)

Faeroese

bøla (sit). (various references)

Farsi 

جوجه کشی کردن , روی تخم خوابیدن , برخوابیدن . (various references)

French

couver. (various references)

Frisian

briede (fry, roast, sit, to fry, toast). (various references)

German

brüten (breed, brood, hatch, plot, ponder, sit), ausbrüten (cook up, hatch, hatch out, hatch up, incubation, to incubate). (various references)

Greek 

εκκολάπτω (hatch), επωάζω (brood, hatch). (various references)

Hebrew 

להדגיר, לדגור (hatch, sit). (various references)

Hungarian

lappang (to incubate, to lurk, to smolder, to smoulder), érlelõdik, érlel (mature, mellow, ripen, to age, to mature, to mellow, to ripen). (various references)

Indonesian

menetaskan. (various references)

Italian

covare (brood, brood over, hatch, nurse, simmer, sit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

イメージ調査 (99.999999999 percent., bad bounce, bad hop, ear protector, ear valve, earmark, earphone, earring, eleven, eleven nines, eraser, eruption, Ile de France, illegal, Illinois, illumination, illumination control, illusion, illustrated map, illustration, illustrator, image change, image survey, in, include, income, income gain, income tax, increment, incremental, incremental business, incubation, incubator, ink, inn, Iran, Iraq, iridium, irony, Iroquois, irrational, irregular, irregular bound, yearbook, year-round fashion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

インキュベート . (various references)

Korean 

알을품으십시요. (various references)

Manx

guirr (brood, fester, hatch, hatching, incubation). (various references)

Papiamen

brui (sit). (various references)

Pig Latin

incubateay.(various references)

Portuguese

incubar (hatch, sit), chocar (breed, brood, bump, cannon, hatch, hit, hurtle, jar, ram, scunner, set, shake, shock, sit, startle, strike, stun). (various references)

Romanian

cloci (brood, cover, hatch, sit). (various references)

Russian 

вынашивать (gestate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvesti veštačkom toplotom, izleći (brood), inkubirati. (various references)

Spanish

incubar (hatch, sicken for). (various references)

Swedish

ruva (brood, sit). (various references)

Turkish

tasarlamak (architect, blue print, calculate, cast about, cast around, contemplate, contrive, design, devise, draft, draught, fix, forecast, mean, meditate, plan, premeditate, project, propose, purpose, ruminate, scheme, skeletonize, spin, think out, think up, trace), kuluçkaya yatmak (brood, sit), kuluçkaya yatırmak (hatch, set, set the hen), kafasında kurmak, civciv çıkarmak (hatch), üretmek (breed, churn out, fabricate, generate, grow, manufacture, procreate, procure, produce, propagate, put out, turn out). (various references)

Ukrainian

висиджувати (clutch, disclose, hatch), виводитися. (various references)

Welsh

deor (brood, hatch). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "incubate": incubated, incubates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Incubate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inciate, incoate, incubat, incubater, inculate, intubate, inuate, Neubaten, Nicabate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cabinet, tunicae.

-2 letters: acetin, auntie, binate, butane, centai, enatic, tunica, unciae.

-3 letters: actin, acute, antic, beaut, cabin, ceiba, centu, cubit, cutie, cutin, enact, entia, nubia, tabun, tenia, tinea, tubae, tunic, uncia, unite, untie.

-4 letters: abet, abut, acne, ante, anti, aunt, bait, bane, bani, bate, bean, beat, beau, bent, beta, bice, bine, bint, bite, bunt.

+1 letter: incubated, incubates.

+2 letters: beautician, binucleate, incubative, subcabinet.

+3 letters: beauticians, binucleated, carbureting, carburetion, disturbance, ineluctable, ineluctably, inscrutable, rubefacient, uncombative, unexcitable.

+4 letters: bankruptcies, carburetions, carburetting, discountable, disturbances, elucubrating, elucubration, incommutable, incomputable, rubefacients, subtenancies, supercabinet, tubocurarine, uncalibrated, uncharitable, uncultivable, unnoticeable.

+5 letters: backcountries, chateaubriand, circumambient, elucubrations, ineducability, multibranched, relubricating, relubrication, republication, subcontraries, supercabinets, tubocurarines, uncontainable, unpredictable, unpredictably, unproblematic.