populates
Settles into occupancy
Populates means to fill with inhabitants or occupy as residents: Immigrants populated the frontier towns.
More commonly now, it describes filling any space with content or data: The software automatically populates the form fields, User reviews populate the sidebar.
The technical sense dominates in computing, where databases, spreadsheets, and interfaces get populated with information.
Increases rapidly in number
- dispersesSpreads widely apart
- expandsIncreases in volume
- multipliesPerforms times operations
- diffusesSpreads in all directions
scatters · permeates · colonizes · migrates · infests · saturates · overruns · swarms
Prospers or ornamental strokes
- bloomsFlowers or flourishes
- burgeonsGrows rapidly, flourishes
- teemsAbounds in quantity
- aboundsExists in plenty
swells · grows · increases · booms · multiplies · prospers · explodes · surges
People living somewhere
- dwellersThose who occupy space
- occupantsThose residing somewhere
- inhabitantsPermanent occupants of place
- communityCollective of connected people
settlers · colonizers · natives · locals · denizens · citizens · homesteaders · pioneers
proliferates
Increases rapidly in number
- dispersesSpreads widely apart
- expandsIncreases in volume
- multipliesPerforms times operations
diffuses · scatters · permeates · colonizes · migrates · infests · saturates · overruns · swarms · pervades
flourishes
Prospers or ornamental strokes
abounds · swells · grows · increases · booms · multiplies · prospers · explodes · surges
residents
People living somewhere
- dwellersThose who occupy space
- occupantsThose residing somewhere
- inhabitantsPermanent occupants of place
community · settlers · colonizers · natives · locals · denizens · citizens · homesteaders · pioneers · migrants
data
Facts for analysis
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- cellsBasic biological units
spreadsheet · entries · records · rows · columns · forms · tables · dropdown · values · autofill
- native populationOriginal residents of place
- city populationInhabitants of a municipality
- population shiftsChanges in where people live
- minority populationsSmaller demographic segments
- population growthIncrease in inhabitants over time
- population explosionRapid growth in inhabitants
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