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Incubator   /ˈɪŋkjəbˌeɪtər/   Listen
Incubator

noun
1.
Apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.  Synonym: brooder.






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"Incubator" Quotes from Famous Books



... doubtless saved him from death. He never had a childhood, and if he ever had a mother, the books are silent concerning her. He must have been an incubator baby, or else been found under a cabbage-leaf. James Mill treated his wife as if her office and opinions were too insignificant to consider seriously—she was only an unimportant incident in his life. James Mill was the typical ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard

... less Raphaelesque than gnat-like, and the acuteness of whose critical faculty was very much more in evidence than that of their affections. These bright little results of modernity and applied science—in the shape of the incubator—took their place in the social movement, at the ages of three and five respectively, with the hard and chilling assurance of a world-weary man and woman. They never exhibited surprise. They rarely exhibited amusement. They ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... the typical Brother Jonathan, only with a longer beard, and his face was haggard, unkempt, anxious. He could scarcely stop to converse, evidently grudged the time, devotes his entire energies from dawn to twilight to slaving for his eight hundred ducklings. He also kept an incubator going all the time. ...
— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn

... I got an incubator, filled it with Buff Orpington eggs and kept the thermometer at 103 deg. F. My knees grew as hard as a goat's from watching it. In the course of events, two chickens came. We had pictured the yard literally covered with them. These poor things broke their legs over ...
— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... officials questioned, only 10, or 312 per thousand, had more than two children. It is not an impossible, but certainly a laughable, outcome of state interference carried too far, should it result, in the state's becoming an incubator for the unfit, in a country where the pensions for officers and employees of the state have risen from 50,000,000 marks in 1900 ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... incubator of warped humanity the breaker has become! It saps even the attenuated manhood of the aliens it attracts, and when they are rendered useless for its ends, emits them to be a ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams

... class when it comes to findin' the incubator that hatches them little yella babies ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... unbound magazines standing about in corners, with more on the table, as well as a heap of note-books. An array of glass tubes and vary-colored bottles stood below the window, with a microscope, and small wooden boxes on one side. And there was, besides, something which I think he called an "incubator"—a metal affair, standing on four slender legs; a number of glass tubes emerged from this, each carefully stoppered with cotton wool, and a thermometer thrust itself up ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson



Words linked to "Incubator" :   thermoregulator, brooder, incubate, setup, thermostat, apparatus



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