different between population vs depopulate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?pj??le???n/
• IPA^(key): /p?pju??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

population (plural populations)

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

2. (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
   • 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.

     […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.

6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Related terms

• popular
• populate
• populous

Translations

Danish

Noun

population

1. (statistics) population

Declension

See also

• stikprøve (“sample”)

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin popul?ti?, popul?ti?nem from Latin populus (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.py.la.sj??/

Noun

population f (plural populations)

1. A population

Related terms

• populaire
• populeux
• peuple

Further reading

• “population” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

population (plural populationes)

1. population

English

Etymology

de- +? populate or Latin d?popul?

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??p?pj?le?t/

Verb

depopulate (third-person singular simple present depopulates, present participle depopulating, simple past and past participle depopulated)

1. (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     Where is this viper

     That would depopulate the city and

     Be every man himself?

   • 1716, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad: of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Book 5, p. 48, lines 681-685,^[2]

     So two young Mountain Lions, nurs’d with Blood

     In deep Recesses of the gloomy Wood,

     Rush fearless to the Plains, and uncontroul’d

     Depopulate the Stalls and waste the Fold;

   • 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, New York: Penguin, Chapter 17, p. 548,

     The agricultural modernization of the 1950s and 1960s, the migration of the sons and daughters of peasants to the cities, had been steadily depleting and depopulating the French countryside.

2. (transitive, electronics) To remove the components from a circuit board.
3. (intransitive) To become depopulated, to lose its population.
   • 1849, William Henry Bartlett, The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., Chapter 1, p. 29,^[3]

     […] the country […] has been rapidly depopulating, and utterly draining of its vital resources, till the unhappy population have sunk to the lowest depth of misery.

   • 1917, Robert Louis Stevenson, Poems of François Villon, Boston: John W. Luce, Critical Biography, p. 1,^[4]

     […] on the 2d of December our Henry Sixth made his Joyous Entry dismally enough into disaffected and depopulating Paris.

   • 1994, Kenneth Coward: The Welfare: A Concise Archival History of Social Services, Owen Sound, Ontario, Appendix III, p. 56,^[5]

     Rural Canada was depopulating and immigrants were needed.

   • 2008, Gary Presley, Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, Chapter 15, p. 80,^[6]

     Visitors dwindled over time. […] My world shrank as it depopulated. It became my room, the front room, and the kitchen.

Translations

See also

• depeople

Adjective

depopulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Depopulated.
   • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, The firste yere of The vnquiete tyme of Kyng Henry the fourthe, p. xix^[7]

     A world it was to see […] his daily peregrinacion in the desert, felles and craggy mountains of that bareine vnfertile and depopulate countrey.

   • c. 1611,, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book Two, p. 30,^[8]

     Wroth for bright-cheekt Bryseis losse; whom from Lyrnessus spoiles,

     (His owne exploit) he brought away, as trophee of his toiles,

     When that town was depopulate;

Latin

Verb

d?popul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?popul?