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  1. Oxford American Dictionary

    incubate

    • IPA[ˈinkyəˌbāt]

    美式

    • v.
      (of a bird) sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching.；(especially in a laboratory) keep (eggs, cells, bacteria, embryos, etc.) at a suitable temperature so that they develop

    • verb: incubate, 3rd person present: incubates, gerund or present participle: incubating, past tense: incubated, past participle: incubated

    • 釋義

    動詞

    • 1. (of a bird) sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching.
    • ▪ (especially in a laboratory) keep (eggs, cells, bacteria, embryos, etc.) at a suitable temperature so that they develop the samples were incubated at 80°C for three minutes
    • ▪ have an infectious disease developing inside one before symptoms appear the possibility that she was incubating early syphilis
    • ▪ develop slowly without outward or perceptible signs unfortunately the BSE bug incubates for around three years