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populate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Populate \Pop"u*late\, a. [L. populus people. See People.]
Populous. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Populated; p. pr. & vb. n. Populating.] To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. i. To propagate. [Obs.]
Great shoals of people which go on to populate.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Medieval Latin populatus, past participle of populare "inhabit, to people," from Latin populus "inhabitants, people, nation" (see people (n.)). Related: Populated; populating.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) populous v
1 (context transitive English) To supply with inhabitants; to people. 2 (context intransitive English) To live in; to inhabit. 3 (context computing transitive/intransitive English) To fill initialise empty items in a collection.
WordNet
v. make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, domicile, domiciliate]
fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country" [syn: people]
Usage examples of "populate".
In an analysis that is over thirty years old and conducted long before we developed the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile and early-mobilization program, the World Health Organization estimated in 1970 that the release of aerosolized anthrax over a densely populated area with 5 million people could result in 250,000 casualties, 100,000 of whom would die unless treated.
But instead, they penetrated deep into the inner cerebrum and began to populate the astrocyte cells.
You and I, reader, were we called on to superintend the education of girls of sixteen, might not select, as favorite points either the hypothenuse or the ancient methods of populating young colonies.
All over the palace area, as the excavations went farther and farther down, the neolithic deposit was found to overlie the virgin soil, sometimes to a depth of 24 feet, showing that the site had been thickly populated in remote prehistoric times.
It was, instead, that the three were almost certain that Titan was the only world in the Solar System populated by men who did not acknowledge the overlordship of Earth.
There was no evidence of the plantlike sea creatures that populated more tropical waters.
And this profligate cityscape is populated by characters--some met, some merely mentioned--with names equally evocative: Porphyria Levant, Estella Velvet, Brother Orphelin, Cerberus Cresset, Mavortian von Heber.
As the galaxy ponderously precessed through the universe the searoom and nearby portions of the artifact became populated by a whole crop of little Candomblean assassins.
Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock investigate in a typically highly populated, deviously plotted adventure with the usual accoutrements: a glossary of terms, a list of characters, two maps, and an historical note.
The general rest-hall was populated by reclining patients, reading, writing, or conversing.
Fourteenth Street, First Avenue, they were scungy but populated, jostling with drug traffic but not a lot of yoking.
He stood on a manicured verge of grass, well populated with geometrically sheared bushes and shrubs.
It was surrounded by a palisade, and in it were constructed various shelters for the birds which were to populate it.
How we extended our sway into the Tellurian Galaxy, as a preliminary to the extension of our authority throughout all the populated galaxies of the macro-cosmic Universe.
Vor had never been to water-rich Caladan--an isolated, sparsely populated Unallied Planet--but it seemed like a pleasant place.