English-Dutch translations for populate

• bevolken
  Meer dan 35.000 vissoorten bevolken de zeeën, maar slechts een honderdtal daarvan is commercieel en voor de consument van belang. Of the more than 35 000 species that populate the seas, only one hundred are of commercial and consumer interest.
  Men moet het grijzer wordende Europa bevolken, zegt men; Europa heeft arbeidskrachten nodig, en om het tekort op te vullen moet een allesomvattend immigratiebeleid worden opgesteld.It tells us that we must populate Europe because Europe has a population deficit. Europe needs manpower, so in order to meet that need we must have a global and voluntary immigration policy.

Definition of populate

• To supply with inhabitants; to people
• To increase in number; to breed
• To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar
• populous

Examples

• John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
• Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.

Related words

• depopulate
• overpopulate
• populated
• depopulated
• repopulate
• overpopulated
• unpopulated
• densely populated