In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
POPULATE
populate
(verb) fill with inhabitants; “populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting”
populate, dwell, live, inhabit
(verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in; “People lived in Africa millions of years ago”; “The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted”; “this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean”; “deer are populating the woods”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)
(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
(transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
(intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
(computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
(electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
Antonyms
• depopulate
Adjective
populate (comparative more populate, superlative most populate)
(obsolete) populous
Source: Wiktionary
Pop"u*late, a. Etym: [L. populus people. See People.]
Definition: Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.
Pop"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Populated; p. pr. & vb. n. Populating.]
Definition: To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
Pop"u*late, v. i.
Definition: To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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