Populate vs Prepopulate - What's the difference?
populate | prepopulate |
To supply with inhabitants; to people.
To live in; to inhabit.
To fill initially empty items in a collection.
(computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.
* 2009 , Cody Lindley, JQuery Cookbook
As verbs the difference between populate and prepopulate
is that populate is to supply with inhabitants; to people while prepopulate is to populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.As an adjective populate
is populous.populate
English
Verb
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate .
prepopulate
English
Verb
(prepopulat)- However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.
