Meaning & use
Populating
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Filling an area with inhabitants, or supplying a system, list, or database with data or items.
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Early settlers spent decades populating the vast, empty plains.
The app automatically starts populating the spreadsheet with data from your contacts.
A note on using this word
Beyond its everyday sense of settling a place with people, "populating" is now widely used in computing to describe filling a database, form, or list with data.
Words with a similar meaning
fillingsettling
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Words with an opposite meaning
emptyingdepopulating
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