Gestate
verb
To carry an embryo or fetus inside the womb from conception to birth.
The mother will gestate her baby for approximately nine months before giving birth.
Often appears as...
- gestate a baby
- gestate a fetus
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To think about and develop an idea or plan in your mind for a long time.
She gestated her idea for the novel for several years before she started writing.
Often appears as...
- gestate an idea
- gestate a plan
verb
To carry an embryo or fetus inside the womb from conception to birth.
The mother will gestate her baby for approximately nine months before giving birth.
Often appears as...
- gestate a baby
- gestate a fetus
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To think about and develop an idea or plan in your mind for a long time.
She gestated her idea for the novel for several years before she started writing.
Often appears as...
- gestate an idea
- gestate a plan
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Process
Used to describe the natural development of a baby inside a living being.
Kangaroos gestate their young for about 33 days.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Objects
Don't use 'gestate' for inanimate objects, it's only for living embryos or fetuses.
Incorrect: The machine gestated the product. Correct: The machine produced the product.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Usage
It's typically used in a factual, scientific context, not metaphorically.
Scientists studied how long sharks gestate their offspring.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Process
Used to describe the natural development of a baby inside a living being.
Kangaroos gestate their young for about 33 days.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Objects
Don't use 'gestate' for inanimate objects, it's only for living embryos or fetuses.
Incorrect: The machine gestated the product. Correct: The machine produced the product.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Usage
It's typically used in a factual, scientific context, not metaphorically.
Scientists studied how long sharks gestate their offspring.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Process
Used to describe the natural development of a baby inside a living being.
Kangaroos gestate their young for about 33 days.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Objects
Don't use 'gestate' for inanimate objects, it's only for living embryos or fetuses.
Incorrect: The machine gestated the product. Correct: The machine produced the product.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Usage
It's typically used in a factual, scientific context, not metaphorically.
Scientists studied how long sharks gestate their offspring.
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Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary. The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18 two nine-year periods deliberately chosen to mimic the nine months of gestation they spend in their natural mother's womb;
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle. The corpus luteum is responsible for producing the progesterone required to maintain the pregnancy until six to seven weeks of gestation,
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
they learn the sound of their mothers' voices. Because sounds from the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and through the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus, the voices fetuses hear, starting around the fourth month of gestation,
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Mammoths resurrected and...
except the news came out this week in Nature that there's now an artificial uterus in which they've grown a lamb to four weeks. That's halfway through its gestation period. So this stuff is moving right along. But why should we want a world where --
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
pattern that's only the thing that would change and see them looking differently lifespan gestation period you know size as much as the little later giraffe a little taller to me than this one's here and again remember this is a very
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Incredible Sea Lion...
support that the body quite hydrodynamic will follow fairly quick the gestation period for sea lions is longer than average and we call this sometimes the delayed gestation sea lions here in Galapagos want their pups to be born at
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Saving the lowland Tapir...
hunting mostly for their meat and their skin and roadkill which is a huge problem in some parts of Brazil in addition papers reproduce very very slowly they produce a single watermelon baby after a very long gestation period
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
I find the gestation of humans and the development of humans and the slowness with which human beings develop absolutely astounding it really is quite remarkable how helped us the human being
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Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
so what is the gestation period of the hippo someone from the universe child from the universe apologies I've still got to get all those handles so the
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How Life Begins in the...
the same time it takes to gestate a human infant. Eventually, all youngsters have to make it on their own in this drifting world.
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary. The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18 two nine-year periods deliberately chosen to mimic the nine months of gestation they spend in their natural mother's womb;
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle. The corpus luteum is responsible for producing the progesterone required to maintain the pregnancy until six to seven weeks of gestation,
Video examples
Annie Murphy Paul: What...
they learn the sound of their mothers' voices. Because sounds from the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and through the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus, the voices fetuses hear, starting around the fourth month of gestation,
Video examples
Mammoths resurrected and...
except the news came out this week in Nature that there's now an artificial uterus in which they've grown a lamb to four weeks. That's halfway through its gestation period. So this stuff is moving right along. But why should we want a world where --
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
pattern that's only the thing that would change and see them looking differently lifespan gestation period you know size as much as the little later giraffe a little taller to me than this one's here and again remember this is a very
Video examples
Incredible Sea Lion...
support that the body quite hydrodynamic will follow fairly quick the gestation period for sea lions is longer than average and we call this sometimes the delayed gestation sea lions here in Galapagos want their pups to be born at
Video examples
Saving the lowland Tapir...
hunting mostly for their meat and their skin and roadkill which is a huge problem in some parts of Brazil in addition papers reproduce very very slowly they produce a single watermelon baby after a very long gestation period
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
I find the gestation of humans and the development of humans and the slowness with which human beings develop absolutely astounding it really is quite remarkable how helped us the human being
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
so what is the gestation period of the hippo someone from the universe child from the universe apologies I've still got to get all those handles so the
Video examples
How Life Begins in the...
the same time it takes to gestate a human infant. Eventually, all youngsters have to make it on their own in this drifting world.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Vikas Swarup
Indian Novelist
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Michael Nesmith
American Musician
I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.
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Nick Mason
British Musician
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
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Mahershala Ali
American Actor
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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Rajiv Menon
Indian Director
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.
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Jane Velez-Mitchell
American Journalist
McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.
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Kevin O'Leary
Canadian Businessman
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
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Roland Joffe
English Director
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.
Quote examples
Vikas Swarup
Indian Novelist
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
Quote examples
Michael Nesmith
American Musician
I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.
Quote examples
Nick Mason
British Musician
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
Quote examples
Mahershala Ali
American Actor
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
Quote examples
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Quote examples
Rajiv Menon
Indian Director
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.
Quote examples
Jane Velez-Mitchell
American Journalist
McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.
Quote examples
Kevin O'Leary
Canadian Businessman
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
Quote examples
Roland Joffe
English Director
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
Quote examples
Alastair Reynolds
British Author
Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.
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