populate

IPA: pˈɑpjʌɫeɪt

verb

  • (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
  • (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
  • (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
  • (computing, transitive, intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
  • (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

adjective

  • (obsolete) populous
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Examples of "populate" in Sentences

  • The most popular search terms populate a query could on the front page of the site.
  • Once there, the Geeklet properties window will populate, which is where all the magic (configuration) happens.
  • This corporation that we populate is commodity-based so therefore, to use an economic term, Canada is a price-taker not a price-maker country.
  • And fundamentalist religions persuing the idea of populate and perish ideals, who've done more than anyone, or anything to really fuck up the planet.
  • Until 1985 the sale and use of contraception was entirely prohibited, and even medical service providers still justify actions that curtail women's human rights by referring to a century-old maxim, "to populate is to govern."

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