Populate
verb
To fill a place with people or animals.
People from all over the country populate the city.
Often appears as...
- populate a region
- densely populate
verb
To fill a form or field with data or information.
The system will automatically populate the text fields with the correct information.
Often appears as...
- populate a field
- populate data
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Technical
verb
To fill a place with people or animals.
People from all over the country populate the city.
Often appears as...
- populate a region
- densely populate
verb
To fill a form or field with data or information.
The system will automatically populate the text fields with the correct information.
Often appears as...
- populate a field
- populate data
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Movement
Populate can imply gradual settlement in a new area over time.
Nomadic tribes began to populate the fertile plains millennia ago.
Pro Tip 2/3Dynamic Growth
Used to describe growing populations, often related to migration or birth rates.
The suburbs continue to populate rapidly due to the affordable housing.
Pro Tip 3/3Ecological Contexts
It's used to talk about species spreading in an ecosystem.
Invasive species have populated the lake, threatening native life.
Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Movement
Populate can imply gradual settlement in a new area over time.
Nomadic tribes began to populate the fertile plains millennia ago.
Pro Tip 2/3Dynamic Growth
Used to describe growing populations, often related to migration or birth rates.
The suburbs continue to populate rapidly due to the affordable housing.
Pro Tip 3/3Ecological Contexts
It's used to talk about species spreading in an ecosystem.
Invasive species have populated the lake, threatening native life.
Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Movement
Populate can imply gradual settlement in a new area over time.
Nomadic tribes began to populate the fertile plains millennia ago.
Pro Tip 2/3Dynamic Growth
Used to describe growing populations, often related to migration or birth rates.
The suburbs continue to populate rapidly due to the affordable housing.
Pro Tip 3/3Ecological Contexts
It's used to talk about species spreading in an ecosystem.
Invasive species have populated the lake, threatening native life.
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How languages evolve -...
So how did we end up with so many? In the early days of human migration, the world was much less populated. Groups of people that shared a single language and culture often split into smaller tribes, going separate ways in search of fresh game and fertile land. As they migrated and settled in new places,
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A brie(f) history of...
In the densely populated city-states of Mesopotamia, cheese became a staple of culinary and religious life. Some of the earliest known writing includes administrative records of cheese quotas, listing a variety of cheeses for different rituals and populations across Mesopotamia.
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Exploring other...
and the world we're familiar with. So, what about four dimensions? And five? And eleven? Where do we put these new perpendicular lines? This is where Flatland can help us. Let's look at our square protagonist's world. Flatland is populated by geometric shapes,
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What’s so great about...
Water slowly moves through its cul-de-sac shape and encounters the world's largest freshwater dunes, many wildlife species, and unique fossilized coral. To the east is Lake Huron, which has the longest shoreline. It's sparsely populated, but heavily forested,
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Sir David Attenborough...
there are some strategies or some ways of life that are so extreme that they have no connection with anything else at all really and it's very difficult to imagine what life must be like in the very depths of the ocean hardly populated at all you've got to
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Filming Antarctica's...
ice landscape um just shards and sculptures of ice and populated by these really vibrantly colored fascinating and often quite large animals it's a completely alien world and even the sounds that you hear as well just kind of add to that because
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Bug Out Vacation PIPE...
anything that does happen that we do it like clockwork and it gets done fast go rich oh nice our motto is to travel fast and travel light as quickly as we can and get away from a populated area said it let's go hey rich guide me in trade
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How a single-celled...
carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen
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The role of disruption...
facts I began imagining a world in which the film could exist if precogs predict crime then people would want to be closer to them so the city would become more populated which would make the architecture go more vertical and
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Why is our universe...
looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness. And they will conclude that the universe is static and unchanging and populated by a single central oasis of matter
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How languages evolve -...
So how did we end up with so many? In the early days of human migration, the world was much less populated. Groups of people that shared a single language and culture often split into smaller tribes, going separate ways in search of fresh game and fertile land. As they migrated and settled in new places,
Video examples
A brie(f) history of...
In the densely populated city-states of Mesopotamia, cheese became a staple of culinary and religious life. Some of the earliest known writing includes administrative records of cheese quotas, listing a variety of cheeses for different rituals and populations across Mesopotamia.
Video examples
Exploring other...
and the world we're familiar with. So, what about four dimensions? And five? And eleven? Where do we put these new perpendicular lines? This is where Flatland can help us. Let's look at our square protagonist's world. Flatland is populated by geometric shapes,
Video examples
What’s so great about...
Water slowly moves through its cul-de-sac shape and encounters the world's largest freshwater dunes, many wildlife species, and unique fossilized coral. To the east is Lake Huron, which has the longest shoreline. It's sparsely populated, but heavily forested,
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
there are some strategies or some ways of life that are so extreme that they have no connection with anything else at all really and it's very difficult to imagine what life must be like in the very depths of the ocean hardly populated at all you've got to
Video examples
Filming Antarctica's...
ice landscape um just shards and sculptures of ice and populated by these really vibrantly colored fascinating and often quite large animals it's a completely alien world and even the sounds that you hear as well just kind of add to that because
Video examples
Bug Out Vacation PIPE...
anything that does happen that we do it like clockwork and it gets done fast go rich oh nice our motto is to travel fast and travel light as quickly as we can and get away from a populated area said it let's go hey rich guide me in trade
Video examples
How a single-celled...
carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen
Video examples
The role of disruption...
facts I began imagining a world in which the film could exist if precogs predict crime then people would want to be closer to them so the city would become more populated which would make the architecture go more vertical and
Video examples
Why is our universe...
looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness. And they will conclude that the universe is static and unchanging and populated by a single central oasis of matter
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John Lasseter
American Director
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
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Jesse Ball
American Poet
I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
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Neil Patrick Harris
American Actor
When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.
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Ivan Reitman
Canadian Actor
I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.
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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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Jeffery Deaver
American Writer
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
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Peter Landesman
American Director
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
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Fernando Torres
Spanish Athlete
Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.
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Julie Kenner
American Author
My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.
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John Lasseter
American Director
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
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Jesse Ball
American Poet
I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
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Neil Patrick Harris
American Actor
When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.
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Ivan Reitman
Canadian Actor
I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.
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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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Jeffery Deaver
American Writer
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
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Peter Landesman
American Director
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
Quote examples
Fernando Torres
Spanish Athlete
Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.
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Julie Kenner
American Author
My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.
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