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Word Meanings - POPULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. 2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

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  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • PEOPLE
    1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • PORTIONIST
    One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • POPULATION
    1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. 2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
  • WHOLENESS
    The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
  • WHOLE-HOOFED
    Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • COUNTRY CLUB
    A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
  • WHOLESALE
    1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
  • PROCESSIONAL
    A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions. J. Gregory. 2. A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.
  • COUNTRYSIDE
    A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
  • WHOLE-SOULED
    Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
  • POPULATE
    Populous. Bacon.
  • PORTION
    1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard
  • PEOPLED
    Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
  • PORTIONER
    See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • REAPPORTIONMENT
    A second or a new apportionment.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • DEPOPULATE
    To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak. Note: It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying,
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • DISPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
  • BARREL PROCESS
    A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
  • TRADESPEOPLE
    People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

 

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