migrate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mi·grate AW [migrate migrates migrated migrating] BrE [maɪˈɡreɪt] NAmE [ˈmaɪɡreɪt] verb
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.
2. intransitive (of a lot of people)to move from one town, country, etc. to go and live and/or work in another
Syn: ↑emigrate
•Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work.
3. intransitive (technical)to move from one place to another
•The infected cells then migrate to other areas of the body.
4. intransitive, transitive ~ (sb) (computing)to change, or cause sb to change, from one computer system to another
5. transitive ~ sth (computing)to move programs or ↑hardware from one computer system to another
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Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare.

Example Bank:
•birds that migrate south in the winter
•Migrating birds often rest and feed in the marshes here.
•Several thousand years ago whole populations migrated to north-west Europe.