popular or populate

查了一下字典，populate解释 如后

Verb，populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)
1，(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
2，(intransitive) To live in; to inhabit.
3，(computing, transitive/intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
e.g.John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.

不知道是指哪个意思。