populate
populate
Definition
popu·late (päp′yə lāt′)
transitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing
- to be or become the inhabitants of; inhabit
- to supply with inhabitants; people
Etymology: < ML populatus, pp. of populare, to populate < L populus, people
populate
Usage Examples
Object
- listbox: Is it possible to get Access to populate a listbox with the names of all the queries in the database?
- repository: Pinfield is also correct in concluding that more consideration needs to be given to populating those repositories that do exist.
- province: The capital of a thinly populated province of the same name, the city of Murcia has a population of 358,000 people.
- planet: He's then trapped for six hundred years on a planet populated entirely by his own clones.
- district: West Lindsey - The most sparsely populated district in the county.
- area: Mills in well populated areas had plenty of workers living round about.
Subject
- folk: It is certainly a beautiful place, populated by a friendly folks.
- thousand: The city is populated by thousands of people who are unrelated to one another.
- people: We find a bench not populated by gray people.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- such: DE solutions are highly suited to meeting the energy requirements of densely populated urban areas such as London.
Modifying Another Word
- densely: In the world's most densely populated city, seven million people can't be wrong about Hong Kong.
- sparsely: The whole of the rest of Lapland is very sparsely populated with a density of only slightly over two persons per sq km.
- thinly: The area is the most thinly populated part of Britain.
- thickly: This is proved by remains found in the basin of the Marne, which was thickly populated by them.
- heavily: Nowadays only a few families remain in an area which was once heavily populated.
- lightly: Further, its shores were undeveloped and lightly populated.
Preposition: with
- datum: Producing the sort of analyzes we have discussed needs a well-designed database populated with the right data.
Preposition: by
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