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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
migrate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird migrates
▪ The birds migrate from South America to North American breeding grounds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
then
▪ These cells then migrate to many different parts of the embryo.
▪ Hydrogen ions then migrate into cells in exchange for potassium ions, which enter the extracellular fluid.
▪ They then migrate into the lymphoid tissue and eventually return to the blood circulation.
■ NOUN
area
▪ For capital, an alternative to migrating to cheap labour areas is to attract cheap, relatively disposable, migrant labour.
▪ It migrates first to unexploited areas and chomps the abundant low quality stems before moving on.
bird
▪ Then it was starting to be winter and getting cold and it was getting time for the bird to migrate South.
▪ Annual changes in the weather are also the stimulus for millions of birds to migrate.
▪ Then finally the bird migrated South.
▪ They are the vital staging post for millions of birds migrating between Siberia and Australasia.
▪ Small mammals therefore do not live in cold countries, and birds migrate south in winter.
cell
▪ Accompanying the expanded domain of r4 expression, neural crest cells migrating from this region also express r4 markers.
▪ These cells then migrate to many different parts of the embryo.
▪ Some cells migrate beneath the future skin and will give rise to pigment cells.
▪ Yet other neural crest cells migrate into the head region and form tissues of the head and face such as cartilage and bone.
▪ If insufficient cells migrate into the front of the head the face will be abnormally small.
▪ The cells seem to migrate along a track of extracellular material that covers cells which are oriented along the pathway they take.
people
▪ The condition of insecurity which often prompts people to migrate to towns means that urban growth occurs under highly unfavourable circumstances.
▪ I could do that and still keep looking for people who would be migrating.
▪ Between 1900 and 1910, more people migrated to the United States than in the entire second half of the nineteenth century.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ How do birds know when to migrate, and how do they find their way back home?
▪ More than 2 million ducks migrate to the lake each fall.
▪ The first Americans migrated across the Bering land bridge more than 10,000 years ago.
▪ Where there are areas of high unemployment, workers tend to migrate to other, wealthier parts of the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he eventually migrated to Chicago, where he acted in independent films and theater.
▪ In the wild, they can often be sighted migrating in bevies of a hundred or more birds.
▪ The answers to the second question, of how animals find their way when migrating, can be more various.
▪ This means that now he has no need to migrate if he can work his own land.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Migrate

Migrate \Mi"grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Migrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Migrating.] [L. migratus, p. p. of migrare to migrate, transfer.]

  1. To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.

  2. To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
migrate

1690s, from Latin migratus, past participle of migrare "to move from one place to another" (see migration). Related: Migrated; migrating.

Wiktionary
migrate

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons. 2 (context intransitive English) To change one's geographic pattern of habitation. 3 (context intransitive English) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another. 4 (context intransitive English) To move slowly towards, usually in groups. 5 (context transitive computing English): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another. 6 (context transitive marketing English) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.

WordNet
migrate
  1. v. move from one country or region to another and settle there; "Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century"; "This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries" [syn: transmigrate]

  2. move periodically or seasonally; "birds migrate in the Winter"; "The worker migrate to where the crops need harvesting"

Wikipedia
Migrate (song)

"Migrate" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her eleventh studio album, E=MC² (2008). It was written and produced by Carey and Danja, with additional songwriting from The Clutch and the tracks featured artist, T-Pain. An up-tempo hip hop club track, it is about Carey's movement on a girls' night out, ranging from the club, the bar, the VIP lounge, the after party and the hotel. Critical response was mixed, with many critics disapproving of Carey's decision to use Auto-Tune on her vocals. "Migrate" peaked at number ninety-two on the United States' Billboard Hot 100 chart, ninety-five on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and sixty-nine on the Pop 100 chart. Carey and T-Pain performed the song on Saturday Night Live.

Usage examples of "migrate".

The explosion blew apart what had been left of the superstructure, taking with it the masts and antennae as the ship erupted into flames amidships, the fire migrating aft to the fuel tanks, where ruptured fuel lines spewed volatile fuel for the gas turbines into the bilges.

He and his agemates had hunted in the sea for tasty mirrat, small finned swimmers which only migrated through the area at that time of the orbital cycle.

It was not till the early part of the 18th century that the Efik, owing to civil war with their kindred and the Ibibio, migrated from the neighbourhood of the Niger to the shores of the river Calabar, and established themselves at Ikoritungko or Creek Town, a spot 4 m.

There was just the barking of a dog, the boom of migrating chafers, the song of the stream, and of the owls, to proclaim the beating in the heart of this sweet Night.

Once a robotic toy companion, a crude electromotive toy from the first decade of the twenty-first century, Aineko was progressively upgraded and patched and periodically migrated to a new hardware platform -- until, by some time in the third or fourth decade, it acquired an agenda of its own.

It was the most likely explanation, except for one detail, Fasciculations do not migrate in waves.

Kookies migrate from one place to another, they always find it necessary to set fire to the huts they are about to abandon, lest the gayals should return to them from the new grounds.

From time beyond remembrance the goldfinch or swallow, or any one of the migrating birds has made his two yearly journeys from one land to another--one way in the spring, the other in the fall.

The edifice was very old, antedating the general white settlement of the region, and had formed the home of a strange and secretive family named van der Heyl, which had migrated from Albany in 1746 under a curious cloud of witchcraft suspicion.

Nars migrate in the winter months southward from the Ionium Sea on the glacial currents.

That was the summer her father had planned to follow the keld up to the Heights when they migrated.

Mayas, the Kiches and the Cakchiquels, in their most venerable traditions, claimed to have migrated from the north or west, from some part of the present country of Mexico.

On the other hand, the temperate productions, after migrating nearer to the equator, though they will have been placed under somewhat new conditions, will have suffered less.

Marcus Aurelius Cotta say that there has been a quarrel among the Germans, and that at the moment they seem to have abandoned their intention of migrating through our province of Gaul-across-the-Alps.

More robots did walk down the row before much time had passed, and all of them seemed to be migrating alone in the sense that they were not part of a crew or a team.