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Populating
- verb - fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
- inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
Population
- noun - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
- a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
- the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
- the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"
- the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
Portraying
- verb - a representation by picture or portraiture
- assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
- make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"
- portray in words; "The book portrays the actor as a selfish person"
- represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting"
Postdating
- verb - be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday"
- establish something as being later relative to something else
Pragmatics
- noun - an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land
- the study of language use
Pragmatism
- noun - (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
- the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
Pragmatist
- noun - a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
Pragmatize
- - To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.
Preadamite
- - An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.