Crossword-Solution: GESTATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gestation | n. | The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). |
| Gestation | n. | The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. |
| Gestation | n. | Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “GESTATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| An elephant has a long one | 1 answer |
| Carrying process | 1 answer |
| PERIOD of pregnancy | 1 answer |
| Period of slow development | 1 answer |
| The development a plan over a period of time | 1 answer |
| When an embryo develops | 1 answer |
| NBC? | 2 answers |
| Period of development | 2 answers |
| Pregnancy | 2 answers |
| fitting out | 3 answers |
| Maturation | 10 answers |
| Hatching | 15 answers |
| brewing | 42 answers |
| Preparation | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GESTATION (5)
Berthold speaks of a kid fourteen days old which was impregnated by an adult goat, and at the usual period of gestation bore a kid, which was mature but weak, to which it gave milk in abundance, and both the mother and kid grew up strong.
Was the old man under the thraldom of an artist’s fancy? Or did these ideas flow from the unspeakable fanaticism produced at times in every mind by the long gestation of a noble work? Was it possible to bargain with this strange and whimsical being? Filled with such thoughts, Porbus said to the old man, “Is it not woman for woman? Poussin lends his mistress to your eyes.” “What sort of mistress is that?” cried Frenhofer.
Never springing, Minerva-like, to full stature at once, truth may suffer all the hazards incident to generation and gestation.
There was so much to think of in this connection—the spermatozoic beginning, the strange period of gestation in women, the danger of disease and delivery.
Since there is room only for a few larvae in the uterus, a large number of eggs perish and this number is the greater the longer the period of gestation.
Quotes with GESTATION (3)
The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare …
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life, in understanding and in creating. There is no measuring in time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not…
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1972–2022).