| 单词 | population |
| 释义 | population (once / 71 pages) 1n 2n Population means the number of people in a geographic area. It can also be used for subgroups of people or animals. The city's population has passed 8 million––who knows what that means for the rat population living off their garbage? Ugh. The word population––and also the word populace––derive from the Latin populus, "people." To remember that population is connected to people, think about the words popular, populist, pop culture, pop music. Don't think about pop corn––unless you're thinking about the movie-going population that lives on it. WORD FAMILYpopulation: populations, subpopulation+/depopulate: depopulated, depopulates, depopulating, depopulation/depopulation: depopulations/overpopulate: overpopulated, overpopulating, overpopulation/overpopulation: overpopulations/populate: depopulate, overpopulate, populated, populates, populating, population/populated: underpopulated, unpopulated/subpopulation: subpopulations USAGE EXAMPLESFor example, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute does health rankings of counties in every state. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) In other words: we’re surrounded by rubbish, and because our population is on the rise, the problem is set to get worse. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) According to the newspaper, Scales was being held in the general population area. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the people who inhabit a territory or state the population seemed to be well fed and clothed Hypo|Hyper home front the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively 2n a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area they hired hunters to keep down the deer population Hypo|Hyper overpopulation too much population group, grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit 3n the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing Hyper integer, whole number any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero 4n the act of populating (causing to live in a place) 2he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals Hyper colonisation, colonization, settlement the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies n (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn it is an estimate of the mean of the population Syn|Hypo|Hyper universe subpopulation a population that is part of a larger population accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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