Populate vs Generate - What's the difference?
populate | generate |
To supply with inhabitants; to people.
To live in; to inhabit.
To fill initially empty items in a collection.
To bring into being; give rise to.
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, title= To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
To procreate, beget.
(mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
To appear or occur; be generated.
* 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)
In lang=en terms the difference between populate and generate
is that populate is to live in; to inhabit while generate is to appear or occur; be generated.As verbs the difference between populate and generate
is that populate is to supply with inhabitants; to people while generate is to bring into being; give rise to.As an adjective populate
is (obsolete) populous.populate
English
Verb
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate .
generate
English
Verb
(generat)Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.