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incube

incube verb: to bury or encase.

Verb

incube (third-person singular simple present incubes, present participle incubing, simple past and past participle incubed)

  1. To bury or encase.
    • it is the most dividing and schismatical form that geometricians know of , and must be fain to inglobe or incube herself among the presbyters1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
    • The social order incubed in the cosmic cell will be an empire, because the physical sphere is itself imperial.1902, Koresh, The Immortal Manhood, page 63
  2. To incubate.
    • Cartilage was incubed for 24 hours in basal medium containing 0.1 % ovalbumin with or without additions.1973, Salvatore Raiti, Advances in Human Growth Hormone Research, page 82
    • During the initial incubation bottles incubed aerobically are agitated on a rotary shaker.1993, Gail L. Woods, Yezid Gutierrez, Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Diseases, page 576

Examples of incube in a sentence

  • Apatite crystals incubed in soil presented numerous corrosion marks as denticulated margin.1998, Extended Abstracts - Part 3, page 1558:
  • Poking round the attic, Jane discovered a packet of Guy's love letters incubed in the same trunk as the muslin gown.2003, Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page, page 181:
  • After inoculation the broth tubes are incubed at 37 ± 2 ° C for 48 hours.1994, Dr. B. K. Sharma, Water Pollution, page 377:

Forms of incube

third-person singular presentincubes
present participleincubing
past participleincubed
pastincubed

Questions about incube

What does incube mean?
Incube means to bury or encase.
How do you use incube in a sentence?
Apatite crystals incubed in soil presented numerous corrosion marks as denticulated margin.
What part of speech is incube?
Incube is a verb.
What is the past tense of incube?
The past tense of incube is incubed.

Words near incube in the dictionary

  1. incubatoria
  2. incubatories
  3. incubatorium
  4. incubators
  5. incubatory
  6. incube
  7. incubed
  8. incubee
  9. incubees
  10. incubes
  11. incubi

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