Occupy vs. Populate
Occupyverb
(transitive) To take or use time.
Populateverb
(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
Occupyverb
To fill time.
‘The film occupied three hours of my time.’;
Populateverb
(transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
Occupyverb
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
‘The film occupied me for three hours.’; ‘I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.’;
Populateverb
(intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
Occupyverb
To fill or hold (an official position or role).
‘I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.’;
Populateverb
To fill initially empty items in a collection.
‘John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.’; ‘Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.’;
Occupyverb
To hold the attention of.
‘I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.’;
Populateverb
(electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
Occupyverb
(transitive) To take or use space.
Populateadjective
(obsolete) populous
Occupyverb
To fill space.
‘The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.’;
Populateadjective
Populous.
Occupyverb
To live or reside in.
Populateverb
To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
Occupyverb
(military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
Populateverb
To propagate.
‘Great shoals of people which go on to populate.’;
Occupyverb
(surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
Populateverb
make one's home or live in;
‘She resides officially in Iceland’; ‘I live in a 200-year old house’; ‘These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted’; ‘The plains are sparsely populated’;
Occupyverb
To have sexual intercourse with.
Populateverb
fill with people or supply with inhabitants;
‘people a room’; ‘The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country’;
Occupyverb
(obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
Occupyverb
(obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
Occupyverb
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
‘Woe occupieth the fine [end] of our gladness.’; ‘The better apartments were already occupied.’;
Occupyverb
To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
Occupyverb
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
‘An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six.’; ‘They occupied themselves about the Sabbath.’;
Occupyverb
To do business in; to busy one's self with.
‘All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.’; ‘Not able to occupy their old crafts.’;
Occupyverb
To use; to expend; to make use of.
‘All the gold that was occupied for the work.’; ‘They occupy not money themselves.’;
Occupyverb
To have sexual intercourse with.
Occupyverb
To hold possession; to be an occupant.
Occupyverb
To follow business; to traffic.
Occupyverb
be present in; be inside of
Occupyverb
keep busy with;
‘She busies herself with her butterfly collection’;
Occupyverb
live (in a certain place)
Occupyverb
occupy the whole of;
‘The liquid fills the container’;
Occupyverb
be on the mind of;
‘I worry about the second Germanic consonant’;
Occupyverb
as of time or space;
‘It took three hours to get to work this morning’; ‘This event occupied a very short time’;
Occupyverb
march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation;
‘Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939’;
Occupyverb
engage or engross wholly;
‘Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely’;
