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POPULATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill with inhabitants

Example:

populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be an inhabitant of or reside in

Example:

deer are populating the woods

Synonyms:

dwell; inhabit; live; populate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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)

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 Context examples: 

A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic bacteria that normally populate the mouth and nasopharynx of dogs and cats.

(Capnocytophaga, NCI Thesaurus)

A large and densely populated urban area; a city specified in an address.

(City, NCI Thesaurus)

Last Observation Carried Forward: A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the subject's previous nonmissing value.

(Last Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Best Observation Carried Forward: A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the subject's best-case nonmissing value.

(Best Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Baseline Observation Carried Forward: A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the subject's nonmissing baseline observation.

(Baseline Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Before the yellow balls popped up, volunteers had already noticed green bubbles with red centers, populating a landscape of swirling gas and dust.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Extremely low-mass stars appear to have densely-populated planetary systems.

(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)

A multitude of bacteria populate the human digestive tract, and this gut microbiota plays important roles in maintaining health.

(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)

Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In this recent report, the researchers demonstrated that they can modify their donut scaffold so that it consists of six concentric rings, each able to be populated with different types of neurons.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)