Defenestrate vs Incubate - What's the difference?
defenestrate | incubate |
To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window; compare transfenestrate.
* 1998 September 25, , quoted in "
To throw out.
* 1998 , Barry J. Fraser and Kenneth George Tobin, International Handbook of Science Education , Volume 2,
* 2001 , , Volume 381, Issues 8498-8501, Page 42,
* 2004 , Mary Carey and Kim Berquist, Writing from a Small Country: Anthology of the Creative Writing Club, Luxembourg? ,
(computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a (Windows) operating system from a computer.
* 1998 December 17, Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, comp.sys.sinclair , Usenet [http://google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/8b00481a8be589d2]:
*:: This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
* 2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "
* 2007 May 16, ,
To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
* 1975:' , ''Adventures in Prayer'', New York, Ballantine Books, December 1976, page 46 - Part of our problem in praying for our children, he suggested, is the time lage, the necessary slow maturation of our prayers. But that's the way of God's rhythm in nature. For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to ' incubate them before the baby chicks hatch.
* 1985:' , ''Blood Meridian'', New York, Vintage International, May 1992, page 3 - The mother dead these fourteen years did ' incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.
* 2004:' , ''The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World'' New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004, page 50 - The female cichlid fish are called "mouth breeders," which means they ' incubate eggs in their mouth.
To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
* 1992:' , ''The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow'', Cincinnati, Writer's Digest Books, 1992, page 96. - When you've got your theme–let the concept ' incubate . Walk around with it, sleep on it.
In transitive terms the difference between defenestrate and incubate
is that defenestrate is to throw out while incubate is to incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.defenestrate
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Verb
(defenestrat)TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka", in Time for Kids :
- I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
- The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).
- Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...
- According to the guidebooks, they do it so strenuously that women would very much like to defenestrate the custom.
- Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)
Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News :
- ? Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.
- Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which mean either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.
References
* “defenestrate” in PC Magazine Encyclopedia .
