POPULATE


Meaning of POPULATE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

heavily populated

a heavily populated area

sparsely populated

a sparsely populated area

thinly populated

The mountain regions are more thinly populated than the lowlands.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

densely

Other industrialized and densely populated countries have similar problems.

Cairo experienced a sudden spurt of growth that turned it into one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world.

Understandably this kind of thing angers the inhabitants of less densely populated regions such as Ogoniland.

The best places to get multiple reports are densely populated areas, which means cities.

The area is quite densely populated and the majority continues to be actively farmed.

In less densely populated areas the recovery rate is of course correspondingly lower.

These inside surfaces are the most densely populated region of the human body.

There may also be objections to its carrying vast loads over densely populated areas.

heavily

This year, runners will head down heavily populated Sunset Boulevard into downtown.

They operated in rugged enemy-fortified zones and in heavily populated rural areas.

Once Highway 3 connects with Highway 1 at Ensenada, the area becomes heavily populated .

sparsely

The Earth is sparsely populated and desolate, with many tower blocks lying decayed and uninhabited.

Although sparsely populated , the country offers foreign travelers everything from historical monuments and castles to authentic saunas and high-tech industry.

He will have noticed, as have those of us who are Friday habitue s, that the Benches are sparsely populated .

The neon chicken radiates orange warmth into the sparsely populated diner.

thinly

Formerly the Amazon region was more thinly populated than the Sahara, containing perhaps some 50000 people, and importing food.

Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton.

Both are thinly populated areas far from departure and arrival points presently used by local commuters.

■ NOUN

area

In general, both shock waves from airbursts and tsunami waves from ocean impacts may present serious hazards to populated areas .

Both are thinly populated areas far from departure and arrival points presently used by local commuters.

Cairo experienced a sudden spurt of growth that turned it into one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world.

The spiders have instinctively achieved their objective of populating new areas .

The best places to get multiple reports are densely populated areas , which means cities.

There may also be objections to its carrying vast loads over densely populated areas .

In less densely populated areas the recovery rate is of course correspondingly lower.

people

After all, the city was populated by people who came from somewhere else because they were looking for something different.

Or that every club on Howard Street has lines around the block populated by half-naked people .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

thickly populated/wooded etc

Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.

Most of northern Calabria is mountainous and thickly wooded with pine, silver fir and maple.

Of all the nearby hills, its pinnacle was closest to their mountain, and it was the most thickly wooded.

Take the footpath beside the Esk, here thickly wooded with birch and ash, for a hundred yards or so upstream.

The land over the hill was thickly wooded.

The spacious stone house had originally been one of three sharing the same hilly and thickly wooded parcel of land.

We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area.

When the air became more thickly populated, such extravagant forms disappeared.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Exponentially reproducing pornographic images are populating cyberspace.

It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs.

Nicholson's are emphatically not backstreet boozers populated by men in cloth caps talking about their ferrets.

Other industrialized and densely populated countries have similar problems.

The Haight was largely populated by trekkers from Alabama and Louisiana.

The spiders have instinctively achieved their objective of populating new areas.

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