1Form the population of (a town, area, or country)

1. 1.1 Cause people to settle in (an area or place)
   Finland pursues a policy designed to populate its Russian borders

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Pakistan, concerned about trade routes in the region, was the first foreign power to take a serious interest in the Sunni Muslim zealots who populated its border with Afghanistan.
   • Oklahoma is largely populated by pioneers from other States.
   • The islands were first settled in part by Portuguese prisoners sent to populate the remote archipelago as a condition of their release.
   • But mainly they work in the home and raise the enormous families that they hope will populate the Territories: new generations raised in the settler way of thinking.
   • French Guiana is populated by settlers from both China and India, in addition to France.
   • Unilateral empire might work today if the world beyond America's borders were populated by five billion Buddhist monks, willing to calmly endure.
   • The earthern barriers to the surrounding arms of the Fraser have existed in some form since the settlers first started populating the area in the mid to late 1800s.
   • Before colonization, Cameroon was a territory of diverse climatic zones populated by a variety of peoples and polities.
   • Macedonians move out of apartment blocks and neighbourhoods populated by Albanians.
   • He used to believe in a Greater Israel stretching from the river to the sea, populated by new waves of pioneering Jewish settlers like his parents.
   • Leppings Lane end, with room to move about, populated by pitmen - they weren't called miners in those days.
   • Thousands of previous instances of cars moving on streets tell us that cars usually populate streets, so much so that a street devoid of cars is rather eerie.
   • Euramerican pioneers populated the central Mojave so recently that many survived into the mid-twentieth century as celebrated living relics.
   • In contrast to the closed components, all the open ones were well populated at all concentrations.
   • Perhaps it is relevant that Israel has built four Jewish settlements around Nablus, populated by armed militants.
   • Much of the world was not populated, settlements of people existed here and there.
   • In Monterey Bay, California, scientists documented a complete turnover of the marine population with cold water fish moving northward and warm water fish and sea animals moving in to populate that area.
   • Before the Herero people settled in this country, it was populated by the San and the Bergdama.
   • There would be no influx of settlers to populate the Holy Land with Latin Christians.
   • German foreigners, the few Jews, and Chilean peasants coexist in a space hemmed in by borders which my prose opens and closes to mark the diversity of voices that populate this region.

   Synonyms

   settle, settle in, colonize, people, move into, occupy, take up residence in, make one's home in, open up, pioneer, overrun
2. 1.2 Fill or be present in (a place, environment, or domain)
   the spirit of the book and the characters who populate its pages

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Viewers can follow the action, get close to the wacky characters populating poker rooms, and pick up tips.
   • The quality of Miéville's writing is often breathtaking, his skill at characterisation unsurpassed, but in many ways even more remarkable is his sheer inventiveness, the genius with which he creates and populates his fantastic world.
   • Certainly grotesque characters populate the world, as in all of the Coens' films, but a lot of the film ultimately centers on Ed's obsession with cleanliness.
   • Kari draws out a wonderful performance from old schoolmate Tomas Lemarquis, as Noi, a complex and compelling character, while populating his village with a host of interesting amateurs.
   • Given that Haslam has played and improvised enough characters to populate a small city, is there some quality that unites the less ephemeral ones?
   • Dealing with life outside and inside of prison, All Things Censored draws us into parallel universes populated by people struggling for humanity.
   • The cast of characters that populates the pages of the O'Connor diaries is vast.
   • Often dispensing with the formulas which govern dramatic construction, his dramaturgy conjures a magical world populated by a vast array of picaresque characters.
   • It was a crazy, hothouse atmosphere populated by exceptionally gifted, strong-willed characters who seemed to drift in and out whenever they pleased.
   • While their plays are set in the same remote areas of Ireland and exhibit the same, almost cliched, ability to spin a good yarn, the characters with which the writers populate their worlds are starkly different.
   • They populate fantasies, are given attributes important to the fan, and their reactions to any of this are rarely considered.
   • At some point, increasing error causes major information loss because many conformations populate the average noise sphere.
   • He populates his worlds with characters that are not out of place in the fabricated environments.
   • Blom, I assume, contrasts these quotidian images from the early part of the last century with what appears to be a semblance of normality for the characters who populate the background of these works.
   • His characters populated the backgrounds of movie lots and locations, and they did their jobs.
   • Here's a brief guide to the freaks and grotesques that populate the Peepshow world.
   • Its market positioning is more Mallory Towers than Jilly Cooper, as the strong female characters that populate its pages tend to have a good, wholesome, practical approach to sexual relationships.
   • She reminded me of the characters that populate Hardy's novels, whose spheres of experience are entirely contained within the radius of work and home.
   • Fritz The Cat's world is populated by all kinds of crazy and kooky characters.
   • Cavorting among the alphabet characters are tiny human figures, veritable Tom Thumbs, populating a world of extravagantly scaled objects.
3. 1.3Computing Add data to a previously empty section of (an electronic form, document, etc.)
   use scripts to populate the graph with data

   Example sentencesExamples

   • You're almost ready to start populating the LDAP database.
   • Motherboards with an odd number of DIMM slots will still run in dual-channel mode even when a third or fifth slot is populated, the company added.
   • We use this technique to populate the database selector in the example.
   • In such a case it makes more sense to use a conventional ETL (extract, transform and load) tool to populate the data warehouse rather than attempt to federate it with transactional sources.
   • Having been worried that the entire gaming internet was populated by homophobic teens, that's a better ratio than I was expecting.
   • The data should be populated into the quality performance database and used to balance against the quality measurement information.
   • I quickly corrected the error and re-ran the Perl script that generates the HTML pages and populates the database for the search engine.
   • As she reviews and interacts with the material, she watches information automatically populate into her assessment monitor that she filled out with information on why she's taking this course.
   • With new programs populating over half of its fall schedule (including a movies/specials night), Fox isn't operating from a position of strength.
   • Steaming cakes and loaves of bread populated the table between the many dishes of meat and sauces.
   • The plant systematist seeking to explain such a pattern would logically look for the distinguishing features of the plethora of orchids populating that single branch of the cladogram.
   • In order to make things a bit more interesting, let's populate our table with some values.
   • As with the runlist, the rows in the targets table are populated in two stages.
   • Besides, it saves us from more of that hairy-chest go-go dance music that populates so much of the rest of the record, the stuff I simply just don't like no matter who does it.
   • The salesperson's identity, perhaps, could be used as the key to draw in any supplementary material and customer details could be populated from their name alone.
   • A single ruddy table was populated by two dozen chairs supporting eighteen people.
   • However, there just aren't enough bytes to populate the game itself.
   • Instead of buying a database of leads, or having telemarketers working to create lead databases, web forms allow site owners to have the prospects themselves populate a business database.
   • The system arrived with 2GB of DDR2 memory, with 4GB possible when the motherboard is fully populated.
   • Memory must be populated 10 DIMMs at a time, with two DIMMs per cartridge and a total of five cartridges.
   • The bottom portion of the frame is populated by the complex geometry and sprites that make up the environment, while the top portion contains some geometry and the large sky box.
   • The values populated for major, minor, and patch are under the control of the Web service.
   • The goal is to populate and maintain an employer database with 95 percent accuracy of the Selected Reserve and 75 percent accuracy of the Individual Ready Reserve.
   • Now the depiction of their son, Leo, and the two family pooches populates that prime spot.
   • At the end it populates the table with the spreadsheet data.
   • So if we bring it up on our map in our [computer] program, the map just populates with thousands of little spots.… So if you're looking at a satellite image of what's down there, you can zoom right into this photo and see it.
   • Mostly men populated O'Reilly's, the kind of men with rough hands and greased back hair.
   • In any event, when I tried to skirt the browser interface and populate the cluster database manually with the provided script, I was greeted with what I consider the death knell of this project.
   • Now that we have a defined table and indexes, we can start to populate our database table with some events.
   • We illustrate in this article that this term may also be appropriate for follicular lymphoma when it populates otherwise benign follicles within the cortex of the architecturally normal lymph node.
   • A single field for recording allergy information must be included in software programs so that the information can populate all appropriate clinical screens and be visible to clinicians.
   • You're not going to let them write to the file, just read, populate the spreadsheet.
   • ‘Software development is easy - you don't have data protection problems until you start populating a database,’ Bierce says.
   • Taken together, our results support a folding mechanism wherein at least one folding intermediate populates behind the main rate-limiting step.
   • The DIMM slots are colour coded, but they are colour coded by channel, rather than by which slots should be populated in order to enable dual channel DDR.
   • You can then populate tables with text and updatable fields.
   • The next goal is to populate a database of 600,000 direct-mail addresses with e-mail addresses, the better to reach customers directly and cheaply.
   • Having the LED between two PCI slots means you can easily mistake which slot has the problem if both are populated above and below the LED.
   • Instead, they can simply populate the backplane with the desired drive type.
   • The room, brightly lit by the sun through the gaps in its wooden slat roof, was populated by perhaps four tables and ten people.