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Migrating

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.

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migrating

vb. (present participle of migrate English)

Usage examples of "migrating".

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.

So Robot City intended to function without the migrating robots for an extended period.

Once we knew that dinosaurs were migrating between continents, we started to wander which dinosaurs evolved where, and when the migrations actually took place.

If dinosaurs were migrating between the continents, then it would be logical to assume that some of the species found on each continent should be identical.

As in modern herding animals, migrating herds probably were only together at certain times of the year.

The assembly hall was packed with citizens who were chosen to be the first group migrating to Earth.

Even giving Pernius that much credit ate her up inside, but she knew the kind of people who would be migrating to Earth.

Rumors of new people migrating from a place called Venus were running rampant throughout the village.

On every womb-planet in the galaxy Rotational Orientation relative to the home star determines the direction of Migrating Intelligence.

Wire fences, guard towers and sharpshooters with guns to stop migrating genes from following the magnetic pull.

But slavery being a local institution, sustained neither by the law of nature nor the law of nations, no citizen migrating from a slave State could carry his slaves with him, and hold them as slaves in the Territory.

So far from migrating isolately, in order to secure for each separate individual the advantages of better food or shelter which are to be found in another district--they always wait for each other, and gather in flocks, before they move north or south, in accordance with the season.

When the clan organization, assailed as it was from within by the separate family, and from without by the dismemberment of the migrating clans and the necessity of taking in strangers of different descent--the village community, based upon a territorial conception, came into existence.