incubate

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Each project will take about three to 12 months to incubate, and will receive some funding to help kickstart development.

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  1. transitive verb To sit on (eggs) to provide heat, so as to promote embryonic development and the hatching of young; brood.
  2. transitive verb To maintain (eggs, organisms, or living tissue) at optimal environmental conditions for growth and development.
  3. transitive verb To maintain (a chemical or biochemical system) under specific conditions in order to promote a particular reaction.
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  • He did not desire to incubate, however, for a fortnight after this, and during all that time Jenny continued laying eggs at intervals. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • I may here say that the symptoms of a male emu desiring to incubate are—sitting on the same spot for some time, with his neck stretched out flat on the ground; snapping right and left at any one coming near him; picking up blades of grass, dried leaves, ;c., and placing them under him as if he were making a nest, though no eggs are within his reach. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • If ness development organization without coordina - not, then the firm should explore how it might "incubate" tion by the team actually delivering the products and the business separately. services; 10. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • SpectrumDNA, Inc. is a social media studio -- a creative space where social media artists and programmers develop, incubate, accelerate and package digital networking experiences --
  • It's also not their primary job to "incubate" minority businesses. —  HolyCoast.com
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  1. Latin incubāre, incubāt-, to lie down on : in-, on; see in-2 + cubāre, to lie down.

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  1. from Latin incubatus, past participle of incubare (later Spanish encobar, incubar = Portuguese incubar), lie in or upon, from in, in, on, + cubare, lie.
 

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