populate-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: furnish or fill with inhabitants

Commentary:
NOTE: May be figurative.

Examples:
The Germans populated the low lands, close to river springs,
while the Italians populated the high lands.
Gitai has populated the story with one unlikable character after another.
How were the Americas populated?
With more than 15 million exercise bikes sold in the past five years, a lot of
garages, basements, and attics must be populated with them.
The first wave of ethnographies of science and technology was populated by several different theoretical frames.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: populate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: fill slots or fields with information

Examples:
Editor toolbar is not populated the first time it is used.
Populate the first field with the applicant's name.
Once the cells mentioned have been populated, the following range cells would then need to be monitored.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM