Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization.
- transitive verb To live in; inhabit.
- transitive verb Computers To fill (an empty field or array) with data.
- transitive verb Chemistry To fill (an electron shell of an atom) with electrons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Populated; populous.
- To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; people.
- To breed; propagate; increase in number.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Populous.
- transitive verb To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
- intransitive verb obsolete To propagate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
supply withinhabitants ; topeople . - verb intransitive To
live in; toinhabit . - verb computing To
fill initially empty items in acollection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
- verb fill with inhabitants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
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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."
Marianne Mollmann: Argentina's Slow Tango With Women's Lives
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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."
Marianne Mollmann: Argentina's Slow Tango With Women's Lives
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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."
Marianne Mollmann: Argentina's Slow Tango With Women's Lives
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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."
Marianne Mollmann: Argentina's Slow Tango With Women's Lives
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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."
Marianne Mollmann: Argentina's Slow Tango With Women's Lives
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The most popular search terms populate a query could on the front page of the site.
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The most popular search terms populate a query could on the front page of the site.
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Once there, the Geeklet properties window will populate, which is where all the magic (configuration) happens.
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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.
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