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    [Verb]  | "pop*u*late" | \ ˈpä-pyə-ˌlāt \


    1: to have a place in : occupy, inhabit

    2: to furnish or provide with inhabitants : people

    3: to provide with members


    Origin: 1578 ;

     Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populāre "to provide with inhabitants,", derivative of Latin populus {see: |people:1|people:1};

    [Verb]  | "populate" 


    1: to supply with inhabitants;


      * e.g., " ... a small island populated only by woodland creatures "





     [ "populate" ]

    1: To fill in information on a website like linkedin, tumblr, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... I have to populate my linkedin, or else nobody is gonna hire me. 

     [ "populizing" ]

    1: It means to "make something popular" that other wise is unknown.

      * e.g.,  ... I am currently populizing this piece of literature so that by tomorrow eveyone will know about it. 

     [ "populism" ]

    1:  A principle that the citizenry of a nation decides its government's endeavors. An often noisy and/or militant mob mentality fostering anti-intellectualism, which operates from primitive emotional instincts rather than from civil, substantive disagreement.

      * e.g.,  ...  As a result of the populism shown at yesterday's peaceful protests, we shall seek to come to a more bipartisan agreement on the current House bill. It was pure pandemonium at the nationwide teabagging festivals last week, which included political hacks as guest speakers, conservatives who falsely claimed that liberals were "protesting with them," anarchists who don't understand why we have taxes in the first place, brainwashed individuals who don't realize they actually benefit from the stimulus bill, conspiracy theorists, libertarians who are protesting taxation WITH representation, Calvinists who think colonial Americans were "saints" just because they lived in an earlier time period even though they owned slaves and often came down with syphilis, and attention whores who like to think they're just like these colonial revolutionaries of the 1700s. In other words, there was much populism. 

     [ "Populism" ]

    1: A simplistic ideology that focuses on grievance and often implies there is an easy solution but often lacks concrete proposals.

      * e.g.,  ... Knee-jerk hostility to trade and immigration are tenets of populism 

     [ "populous" ]

    1: Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population

      * e.g.,  ... New York City is a very populous place - millions of people live there! 

     [ "populized" ]

    1: The act of populating an area.

      * e.g.,  ... Jim and Jenny populized their home by having little Bobby bastard. 

     [ "Populant" ]

    1: The individual that makes up a population.

      * e.g.,  ... Each new populant adds to the worlds population. 

     [ "Populating" ]

    1: another word for popping...

      * e.g.,  ... "hey john, when are we getting that great train Populating ?" 


     [ "Populating" ]

    2: can be used as in to get (something) started

      * e.g.,  ... or "mary when is that party Populating " 


     [ "Populating" ]

    3: or as in "what's up?" or "what's going on?"

     [ "Population" ]

    1: Population is the part of the prison or penitentiary where the majority of the prisoners are held. As opposed to solitary confinement or the psych ward.

      * e.g.,  ... I can't wait to get back into population. I shouldn't have shanked that guard!. 

     [ "populism" ]

    1: A phenomenon in which government specifically economics is perceived to operate according to the laws of small business.

      * e.g.,  ... Populism believes that the economy operates according the laws of small business in contrast to neoliberalism which proffers that the government operates according to the laws of BIG business (corporations). 

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