migrate
migrate
/maɪˈɡreɪt/
1 intransitive (of birds, animals, etc.) to move from one part of the world to another according to the season Swallows migrate south in winter.
Collocations
adverb
northnorthwardsetc.…
preposition
fromintoto…
2 intransitive (of a lot of people) to move from one town, country, etc. to go and live and/or work in another Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work.
Several thousand years ago whole populations migrated to north-west Europe.
3 intransitive (specialist) to move from one place to another The infected cells then migrate to other areas of the body.
4 intransitive, transitive migrate (somebody) (computing) to change, or cause somebody to change, from one computer system to another 5 transitive migrate something (computing) to move programs or hardware from one computer system to another Word Origin
early 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare.
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