POPULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does populate mean? 

• POPULATE (verb)
  The verb POPULATE has 2 senses:

1. be an inhabitant of or reside in

2. fill with inhabitants

  Familiarity information: POPULATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they populate    ... he / she / it populates   
Past simple: populated   
Past participle: populated   
-ing form: populating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be an inhabitant of or reside in

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

dwell; inhabit; live; populate

Context example:

deer are populating the woods

Hypernyms (to "populate" is one way to...):

be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "populate"):

tenant (occupy as a tenant)

neighbor; neighbour (live or be located as a neighbor)

lodge in; occupy; reside (live (in a certain place))

domicile; domiciliate; reside; shack (make one's home in a particular place or community)

people (furnish with people)

overpopulate (cause to have too great a population)

cohabit; live together; shack up (share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple)

lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)

bivouac; camp; camp out; encamp; tent (live in or as if in a tent)

nest (inhabit a nest, usually after building)

board; room (live and take one's meals at or in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

population (the people who inhabit a territory or state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill with inhabitants

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting

Hypernyms (to "populate" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "populate"):

people (fill with people)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

population (the act of populating (causing to live in a place))

 Context examples 

If an earthquake occurs in a populated area, it may cause property damage, injuries, and even deaths.

(Earthquakes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.

(Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place, NASA)

This may be populated when a start date is not.

(Adverse Event End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the best possible outcome.

(Best Case Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city.

(Inner City, NCI Thesaurus)

This may be populated when a start date is not collected.

(Performed Medical History Result End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Surprisingly, the loss of woodlands tended to be greater in protected forest reserves than in the more populated Chobe District.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

It raises concern over increased vulnerability of coastal settlements in the populated, low- to middle- income tropical countries to extreme weather events.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

EXAMPLE(S): Fire drill - forgot to ask, subject refused, sample lost, broken equipment; NOTE(S): This value should only be populated if PerformedObservationResult.value is null.

(Performed Observation Result Value Null Flavor Reason, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the best-case nonmissing value.

(Best Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)