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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
migration
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ Following the annual migration of food preparation to the outdoors is the perennial question: How shall these delicacies be washed down?
great
▪ February is the season of the great migration journeys to the southern plains, a time of rebirth for the herds.
▪ In 1848 Young marshaled another 1, 229 Saints and Kimball pulled together 662 more for the great migration.
▪ The laibon retells the accounts of his illustrious ancestors of the great migration from the North.
▪ The great black migration from the West Side-and from the Deep South-had only just begun.
▪ Railways throughout the East were to contribute to that greatest religious migration of all.
▪ It was a time of great migration.
illegal
▪ The law itself, according to the bipartisan commission, is a source of continuing illegal migration.
▪ The white paper that preceded the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999 emphasised concern about illegal migration.
internal
▪ Both emigration and internal migration became increasingly controlled.
international
▪ The mid 1980s were also associated with a switch in the direction of the international migration balance.
▪ The age is characterized by huge international migrations, people in search of jobs, housing, even food.
▪ North-South models; international migration of labour; trade and industrial structure in the 1930s; the political economy of protectionism.
▪ Throughout the twentieth century the Commonwealth countries remained the main origins and destinations of international migration.
mass
▪ We should also think about the problems of the world as a whole, which cause mass migration in the first place.
▪ A proposed programme of resettlement from the most overpopulated areas was shelved for fear of raising peasant expectations and unleashing dangerous mass migration.
▪ There seems to be a seasonal mass migration from the Rhineland and the Ruhr, extending well into October.
▪ But collectively their mass migration is ruining the country's development prospects.
net
▪ In other words, a net outward migration of almost 8,000 people.
▪ Figure 4.2 Net migration to the South from the rest of Great Britain, 1971-86.
▪ During the 1950s the population of the South-East went up by 1.13 million, with a net migration gain of 438,000.
seasonal
▪ It has been suggested that seasonal migrations could explain their presence, but this hypothesis is untenable.
▪ As in the other mountain regions, population pressure was alleviated to some extent by seasonal migration.
▪ So in Savoy, as in the county of Nice, the natural complement to pastoralism was seasonal migration.
▪ There seems to be a seasonal mass migration from the Rhineland and the Ruhr, extending well into October.
■ NOUN
path
▪ Xplorer offers users a migration path to the firm's GigaCube massively parallel supercomputers which are also to use T9000s.
▪ According to Parsytec, the Xplorer offers users a migration path to its GigaCube massively parallel supercomputers which are also to use T9000s.
▪ Changes in trace organics are being sampled and identified at various distances along a gas migration path from a landfill in Suffolk.
pattern
▪ Local observers were encouraged to report on distribution and migration patterns, thus paving the way for an interest in environmental concerns.
route
▪ Numerous birds and fish depend on the estuaries and mudflats, for wintering grounds and breeding and migration routes.
▪ You can see why it is important to have back the scrolls, which passed down our migration routes for generations.
▪ Well, Lancre was on one of the main migration routes, for birds of all sorts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the yearly migration of geese
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both emigration and internal migration became increasingly controlled.
▪ One form of black response to the fraud and violence in the South was a substantial migration of blacks northward.
▪ Southerners hotly contended that no violence necessitating migration existed; the resolution was not passed.
▪ The United States was created by migration and the modern world has been sculpted by migration.
▪ Why is there a migration of industry from urban areas towards relatively rural ones?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Migration

Migration \Mi*gra"tion\, n. [L. migratio: cf. F. migration.] The act of migrating.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
migration

1610s, of persons, 1640s of animals, from Latin migrationem (nominative migratio) "a removal, change of abode, migration," noun of action from past participle stem of migrare "to move from one place to another," probably originally *migwros, from PIE *meigw- (source of Greek ameibein "to change"), from root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" (see mutable). Related: Migrational.\n

\nThat European birds migrate across the seas or to Asia was understood in the Middle Ages, but subsequently forgotten. Dr. Johnson held that swallows slept all winter in the beds of rivers, while the naturalist Morton (1703) stated that they migrated to the moon. As late as 1837 the "Kendal Mercury" "detailed the circumstance of a person having observed several Swallows emerging from Grasmere Lake, in the spring of that year, in the form of 'bell-shaped bubbles,' from each of which a Swallow burst forth ...."

Wiktionary
migration

n. 1 An instance of moving to live in another place for a while. 2 seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home.

WordNet
migration
  1. n. the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

  2. a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

  3. (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

  4. the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding

Wikipedia
Migration (The Amboy Dukes album)

Migration is the third studio album by The Amboy Dukes. It was released in 1969 on Mainstream Records (stereo S/6118). On this album, Rusty Day replaced John Drake on vocals. The song "I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent" is a cover of the 1956 song by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers.

A CD reissue was released in 1991 by Repertoire Records with two bonus tracks (REP 4178-WZ). It credits the band as "The American Amboy Dukes", the name under which the group's records were released in Britain.

Migration

In ecology and animal behaviour, Migration, Migratory behavior, or Migratory may refer to:

  • Animal migration, the physical movement by animals from one area to another
    • Bird migration, the regular seasonal journey undertaken by many species of birds
      • Reverse migration (birds), a phenomenon in bird migration
    • Fish migration, the regular journey of fish
    • Insect migration, the seasonal movement of insects
      • Lepidoptera migration, the movement of butterflies and moths
  • Diel vertical migration, a daily migration undertaken by some ocean organisms
  • Plant migration, see Seed dispersal, the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant
  • Forest migration, the movement or transport of large seed plant dominated communities in geographical space over time
  • Human migration, physic movement by humans from one area to another
Migration (Creative Source album)

Migration is the second album by Los Angeles, California-based R&B group Creative Source. This was their last album on Sussex Records before moving onto Polydor Records in 1975.

Migration (virtualization)

In the context of virtualization, where a guest simulation of an entire computer is actually merely a software virtual machine (VM) running on a host computer under a hypervisor, migration (also known as teleportation) is the process by which a running virtual machine is moved from one physical host to another, with little or no disruption in service.

Migration (Dave Grusin album)

Migration is an album by American pianist Dave Grusin released in 1989, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached #1 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.
The Suite from the Milagro Beanfield War (tracks 10-14) received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement of an Instrumental. Grusin's music from The Milagro Beanfield War was also a 1988 Academy Award winner, and a 1988 Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Score.

Usage examples of "migration".

A purer, richer aspect of this world, closer to the Focus yet destroyed by avarice and war, hence the Faery migration to this baser world.

Somehow this brought home to her for the first time the sheer force of the Multiplier migration, its quality of being a cascading explosion of thistledown birling through and filling and abhorring the vacuum.

The migration of the Canaanites, their establishment in Syria, and the Shepherd invasion of Egypt are, by many Arab writers, attributed to an expedition of Shedad.

Then it is on, on to spy on something with a long neck and a comic knobby head, and then to watch a pair of angry ceratopsians butting heads in slow motion, and then to applaud the elegant migration of a herd of towering duckbills across the horizon.

Looking to geographical distribution, if we admit that there has been during the long course of ages much migration from one part of the world to another, owing to former climatal and geographical changes and to the many occasional and unknown means of dispersal, then we can understand, on the theory of descent with modification, most of the great leading facts in Distribution.

Within the borders of the colony at any time of day one could hear the boom of their long roers, and in the season of the great animal migrations across the plains they had organized themselves into large mounted parties to hunt the wild horses, the quagga, for their hides, the spring buck and eland for their meat.

And what those acute senses believed they felt was engraftment itself, the migration of the donor cells from his bloodstream to his bones.

Field Section reports the energy neutralizer is in place and that the Goog have begun their space migration.

Like Barien, she can trace her lineage back to the Hierophantic migration.

Emerging under different suns, whether in the pleasant uplands of Kenya or Uganda, the steep gorges of Inyanga, or the rolling plains of Rhodesia, and growing over many centuries of pioneering migration and settlement, mingling with more primitive peoples, solving a whole wide range of contrasting problems, these early civilizations asserted once again a dominant African theme of unity in diversity, continuity in isolation.

Ifin a first moment the multitude demands that each state recognize juridically the migrations that are necessary to capital, in a second moment it must demand control over the movements themselves.

Ahau Katun, and having stated the desertion of Chichen Itza and the migration to Chakanputun, the chronicler draws a line, as if to separate broadly these occurrences from those which followed.

There was no midwinter feast that year and over three hundred women and children died of starvation before the next keld migration.

In less than two tendays, the fert migration would be over, and the keld would start up the trail.

Already the men were looking forward to the keld feast at the end of migration.