incubating
Sitting on eggs
Incubating is the ongoing process of keeping eggs warm until they hatch, whether by a bird sitting on them or by artificial heat.
The term extends to the development phase of diseases before symptoms appear: The virus has a two-week incubating period.
Figuratively, incubating describes nurturing ideas or projects in their early stages: She's been incubating a plan to start her own business.
Reproductive cell in shell
- embryoOrganism before birth
- nestAnimal-built shelter for young
- broodHatchlings as a group
- chickYoung bird, especially poultry
hatchery · clutch · yolk · warmth · turning · candling · humidity · fledgling
Mental formation
- startupNew business enterprise
- projectPlanned, effortful task
- conceptAbstract mental construct
- innovationCreating something original
prototype · venture · growth · emergence · germination · cultivation · maturation · evolution
Advising someone less experienced
- fosteringPromoting development or growth
- supportingBearing or sustaining
- guidingLeading toward destination
- cultivatingDeliberately developing or tending
encouraging · tending · coaching · developing · protecting · nourishing · training · educating
egg
Reproductive cell in shell
chick · hatchery · clutch · yolk · warmth · turning · candling · humidity · fledgling · pipping
idea
Mental formation
innovation · prototype · venture · growth · emergence · germination · cultivation · maturation · evolution · progression
mentoring
Advising someone less experienced
- fosteringPromoting development or growth
- supportingBearing or sustaining
- guidingLeading toward destination
cultivating · encouraging · tending · coaching · developing · protecting · nourishing · training · educating · sponsoring
infection
Pathogen invasion causing illness
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
- bacteriaNucleus-free single-celled organisms
pathogen · symptoms · contagion · latency · onset · fever · exposure · carrier · dormant · period
- bird behaviorsflying, soaring, perching, nesting, migrating
- business activitiesmeetings, meeting, hiring, firing, training
- hatchingegg, embryo, chick, hatchlings, eggshell
- development stagesearly stage, late stage, infancy, childhood, alpha
- in progressunderway, pending, ongoing, active, unfinished
- unexpressedunspoken, unstated, unuttered, suppressed, implicit
incubatingabandoning
Leaving permanently behind
neglecting · terminating · destroying · killing · stifling
incubatingabandoning
Leaving permanently behind
deserting · forsaking · neglecting · leaving · ignoring
incubatingchilling
Causing fear or cold
cooling · refrigerating · freezing · exposing · ventilating
- incubation periodTime before symptoms emerge
- dream incubationDeliberately prompting specific sleep visions
- incubation timePre-emergence waiting interval