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populate Definition

popu·late (päpyə lāt′)

transitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing

  1. to be or become the inhabitants of; inhabit
  2. 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

  • 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.