† populatev.¹

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin populāt-, populārī.

Etymology: < classical Latin populāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of populārī, populāre to lay waste, ravage, plunder, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle French populer (1540 in an apparently isolated attestation). Compare population n.²

Obsolete.

transitive. To devastate, ravage. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.)

harryc893

fordoc900

awesteeOE

westeeOE

losec950

harrowc1000

destroyc1230

wastec1275

ravishc1325

to lie waste1338

exilea1382

to-wastea1382

unronea1400

desolatea1425

vast1434

fruster?a1513

to lay waste1535

wipe1535

devast1537

depopulate1548

populate1552

forwaste1563

ruinate1564

havoc1575

scourge1576

dispopulate1588

destitute1593

ravage1602

harassa1618

devastate1638

execute1679

to make stroy of1682

to lay in ashes1711

untown1783

hell-rake1830

uncity1850

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Populate or conquere. Loke in Conquere, waist.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Di/2 To Populate, populari.

1601 W. Watson Important Consid. (1831) 23 To bring in the Spaniard to populate, waste, and destroy this whole Isle.

1655 C. Barksdale tr. H. Grotius Of Law Warre & Peace iii. 605 Let him be sure to wast the Enemies Countrey, to burn and populate; for scarcity of money and fruits minishes war.

1737 B. N. Defoe New Eng. Dict. To populate, to unpeople or lay waste a Country.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

populatev.²

Brit.

/ˈpɒpjᵿleɪt/, U.S.

/ˈpɑpjəˌleɪt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin populat-, populare.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin populat-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of populare to increase (c550 in a British source), to people, populate (11th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin populus people n. Compare Middle French populer (1472), Italian popolare (a1348). Compare earlier people v., slightly later popule v., and also populate adj.

a. transitive. To people, inhabit, form the population of (a country or other area). Also: to provide or supply with inhabitants.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)]

wonOE

erdeOE

inwonea1300

inhabitc1374

indwell1382

occupya1387

biga1400

endwellc1420

possessc1450

purprise1481

people1490

dwell1520

accompany?c1525

replenishc1540

populate1578

habit1580

inhabitate1600

tenant1635

improvec1650

manure1698

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)]

set971

publish?a1400

inhabitc1400

seedc1400

man?a1425

peoplea1475

peoplish1530

repletec1540

empeople1582

popule1588

world1589

appopulate1625

populate1885

1578 J. Florio Firste Fruites f. 7^v Adorned with fayre women, populated of many people.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 20 They populated then The foote of fountfull Ide.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 168 The means (viz. good Laws) whereby any Kingdom, may be populated, and consequently enriched, is in effect the substance and design of all my foregoing Discourse.

1730 R. Samber Epithalamium 7 Heroes and Heroines from hence arise, To bless the World, and populate the skies.

1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 167 And would gradually populate all the sub-marine portion of the globe.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 559 Ox and deer—all of which then populated Britain.

1885 Manch. Examiner 14 Feb. 5/2 The great countries we have populated in North America and at the Antipodes.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxii. 246 He knew of the devious means by which information passed from man to man of that illiterate race which populated that section of the county.

2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics v. 288 During World War II when United States personnel populated parts of the islands.

b. transitive. figurative and in extended use: to fill, occupy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > fill a vacant space or place > with a person or thing

filla1616

populatea1886

a1886 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) III. 1141 Populate with awe my solitude.

a1914 J. P. Bourke Off Bluebush (1915) 156 Those tortured mental kinks That populate the upper end Of men who mix their drinks.

1933 A. S. Eddington Expanding Universe iii. 109 We can..imagine space to be populated not only with real stars and galaxies but with ghosts of stars which existed 6000 million, 12000 million, etc. years ago.

1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 231/1 The thymus plays a major role in populating lymph nodes with lymphocytes during the early development of these organs.

2004 .Net Christmas 72/2 There are some smart features such as the ability to populate text boxes with dummy text until you get round to writing the proper copy.

c. Computing.

(a) transitive. To fill the sockets on (a circuit board) with components, esp. those which provide extra memory capacity. Also (of components): to occupy the sockets on (a circuit board).

ΚΠ

1977 Computer Music Jrnl. 1 60/1 The board has 32k byte capacity and is available populated in multiples of 8k bytes to 32k bytes.

1990 UnixWorld Apr. 52/1 Seven or nine VLSI CMOS chips populate the CPU planar (PC board), with large, 2-inch tall, aluminum heat sinks crowning each chip.

2007 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 15 Mar. c1 They take a bare circuit board and populate it with microelectronics components.

(b) transitive. To import data into (a database); to provide (a database) with content.

ΚΠ

1982 MIS Q. 6 35 The Prototype Model requires a database populated through some generalized input processor.

1987 C. J. Harris Adv. in Command, Control, & Communication Syst. 124 To create and populate the database.

2006 Computerworld (Nexis) 21 Nov. Most project teams prepare a staging environment to isolate testing activities and then populate the database with fake testing data or a subset of production data.

2. intransitive. Of people, animals, etc.: to grow in numbers; to become more numerous by reproducing. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)]

teemOE

tidderOE

breedc1200

felefolda1300

fructifya1325

creasec1380

multiplyc1390

engendera1400

fawn1481

procreate1576

propagate1601

generate1605

spawn1607

pullulate1618

populate1625

reproduce1650

prolify1660

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 337 When there be great Shoales of People, which goe on to populate, without foreseeing Meanes of Life and Sustentation.

1820 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 285 As if..it would not set mankind populating faster than carpenters and bricklayers could cover in their children.

1992 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 13 Aug. (Special Suppl.) 44 While we are all mucking in together, we are also populating at a rate of 250,000 people a year.

2003 Daily News L.A. (Nexis) 28 Nov. n29 The animals are populating faster than LAAS' inadequate programs can deal with.

3. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. Of a country or other area: to increase in population; to become more populous. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > become populous [verb (intransitive)]

populate1786

1786 G. Washington Let. 20 May (1931) XXVIII. 437 There remains no doubt on it of my obtaining my own terms, as the country populates and the situation and local advantages of them [sc. the properties] unfold.

1787 T. Coxe Addr. Assembly Friends Amer. Manufacturers 15 Wool must become much more abundant as our country populates.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 556 Its trade..must increase, in proportion as the surrounding country populates.

1820 Times 7 Jan. 2/2 If the rapidity with which a waste country populates depend [sic] upon the facility of acquiring its land, would not the augmentation of the prince have checked the growth of the west?

1822 Niles' Reg. 12 Oct. 96/2 This territory [sc. Michigan] is rapidly populating.

1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Aug. b1 Wesson said the [oyster] reefs are ‘not populating as fast as we'd hoped’ but cannot be written off yet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	populate
释义	† populateadj. Forms: 1500s populat, 1500s–1600s 1800s populate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin populatus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin populatus, past participle of populare to people, populate (see populate v.²). Obsolete (poetic in later use). Populated. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [adjective] > populous well-inhabited?a1425 populousc1425 well-peopleda1475 well-occupied1555 populate?1575 popular1588 well-populated1654 ?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 389 The countrey of Caldea..the Region after the Floud first inhabited and populat [Sp. la primera region que se pobló en todo el mundo]. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 42 The Kingdome is much populate. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. iii. 58 In a place so populate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † populatev.¹ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin populāt-, populārī. Etymology: < classical Latin populāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of populārī, populāre to lay waste, ravage, plunder, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle French populer (1540 in an apparently isolated attestation). Compare population n.² Obsolete. transitive. To devastate, ravage. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Populate or conquere. Loke in Conquere, waist. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Di/2 To Populate, populari. 1601 W. Watson Important Consid. (1831) 23 To bring in the Spaniard to populate, waste, and destroy this whole Isle. 1655 C. Barksdale tr. H. Grotius Of Law Warre & Peace iii. 605 Let him be sure to wast the Enemies Countrey, to burn and populate; for scarcity of money and fruits minishes war. 1737 B. N. Defoe New Eng. Dict. To populate, to unpeople or lay waste a Country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). populatev.² Brit. /ˈpɒpjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑpjəˌleɪt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin populat-, populare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin populat-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of populare to increase (c550 in a British source), to people, populate (11th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin populus people n. Compare Middle French populer (1472), Italian popolare (a1348). Compare earlier people v., slightly later popule v., and also populate adj. 1. a. transitive. To people, inhabit, form the population of (a country or other area). Also: to provide or supply with inhabitants. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)] wonOE erdeOE inwonea1300 inhabitc1374 indwell1382 occupya1387 biga1400 endwellc1420 possessc1450 purprise1481 people1490 dwell1520 accompany?c1525 replenishc1540 populate1578 habit1580 inhabitate1600 tenant1635 improvec1650 manure1698 society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)] set971 publish?a1400 inhabitc1400 seedc1400 man?a1425 peoplea1475 peoplish1530 repletec1540 empeople1582 popule1588 world1589 appopulate1625 populate1885 1578 J. Florio Firste Fruites f. 7^v Adorned with fayre women, populated of many people. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 20 They populated then The foote of fountfull Ide. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 168 The means (viz. good Laws) whereby any Kingdom, may be populated, and consequently enriched, is in effect the substance and design of all my foregoing Discourse. 1730 R. Samber Epithalamium 7 Heroes and Heroines from hence arise, To bless the World, and populate the skies. 1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 167 And would gradually populate all the sub-marine portion of the globe. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 559 Ox and deer—all of which then populated Britain. 1885 Manch. Examiner 14 Feb. 5/2 The great countries we have populated in North America and at the Antipodes. 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxii. 246 He knew of the devious means by which information passed from man to man of that illiterate race which populated that section of the county. 2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics v. 288 During World War II when United States personnel populated parts of the islands. b. transitive. figurative and in extended use: to fill, occupy. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > fill a vacant space or place > with a person or thing filla1616 populatea1886 a1886 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) III. 1141 Populate with awe my solitude. a1914 J. P. Bourke Off Bluebush (1915) 156 Those tortured mental kinks That populate the upper end Of men who mix their drinks. 1933 A. S. Eddington Expanding Universe iii. 109 We can..imagine space to be populated not only with real stars and galaxies but with ghosts of stars which existed 6000 million, 12000 million, etc. years ago. 1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 231/1 The thymus plays a major role in populating lymph nodes with lymphocytes during the early development of these organs. 2004 .Net Christmas 72/2 There are some smart features such as the ability to populate text boxes with dummy text until you get round to writing the proper copy. c. Computing. (a) transitive. To fill the sockets on (a circuit board) with components, esp. those which provide extra memory capacity. Also (of components): to occupy the sockets on (a circuit board). ΚΠ 1977 Computer Music Jrnl. 1 60/1 The board has 32k byte capacity and is available populated in multiples of 8k bytes to 32k bytes. 1990 UnixWorld Apr. 52/1 Seven or nine VLSI CMOS chips populate the CPU planar (PC board), with large, 2-inch tall, aluminum heat sinks crowning each chip. 2007 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 15 Mar. c1 They take a bare circuit board and populate it with microelectronics components. (b) transitive. To import data into (a database); to provide (a database) with content. ΚΠ 1982 MIS Q. 6 35 The Prototype Model requires a database populated through some generalized input processor. 1987 C. J. Harris Adv. in Command, Control, & Communication Syst. 124 To create and populate the database. 2006 Computerworld (Nexis) 21 Nov. Most project teams prepare a staging environment to isolate testing activities and then populate the database with fake testing data or a subset of production data. 2. intransitive. Of people, animals, etc.: to grow in numbers; to become more numerous by reproducing. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)] teemOE tidderOE breedc1200 felefolda1300 fructifya1325 creasec1380 multiplyc1390 engendera1400 fawn1481 procreate1576 propagate1601 generate1605 spawn1607 pullulate1618 populate1625 reproduce1650 prolify1660 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 337 When there be great Shoales of People, which goe on to populate, without foreseeing Meanes of Life and Sustentation. 1820 S. Smith Wks. (1850) 285 As if..it would not set mankind populating faster than carpenters and bricklayers could cover in their children. 1992 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 13 Aug. (Special Suppl.) 44 While we are all mucking in together, we are also populating at a rate of 250,000 people a year. 2003 Daily News L.A. (Nexis) 28 Nov. n29 The animals are populating faster than LAAS' inadequate programs can deal with. 3. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. Of a country or other area: to increase in population; to become more populous. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > become populous [verb (intransitive)] populate1786 1786 G. Washington Let. 20 May (1931) XXVIII. 437 There remains no doubt on it of my obtaining my own terms, as the country populates and the situation and local advantages of them [sc. the properties] unfold. 1787 T. Coxe Addr. Assembly Friends Amer. Manufacturers 15 Wool must become much more abundant as our country populates. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 556 Its trade..must increase, in proportion as the surrounding country populates. 1820 Times 7 Jan. 2/2 If the rapidity with which a waste country populates depend [sic] upon the facility of acquiring its land, would not the augmentation of the prince have checked the growth of the west? 1822 Niles' Reg. 12 Oct. 96/2 This territory [sc. Michigan] is rapidly populating. 1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Aug. b1 Wesson said the [oyster] reefs are ‘not populating as fast as we'd hoped’ but cannot be written off yet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1575v.¹1552v.²1578
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