migrate

/mai'greit/

Thân thiện

A flock of birds migrates across the autumn sky.

Definition

1. Verb (Intransitive):

   • To move from one region, country, or place of residence to another, often in search of better living conditions, work, or seasonal resources.
   • To move periodically or seasonally, especially as part of the life cycle of certain animals.

2. Verb (Transitive):

   • To cause (data, software, or systems) to be transferred from one environment, storage system, or platform to another.

Usage

• Intransitive Verb: Used to describe the movement of people, animals, or even abstract concepts like ideas.
  • People often migrate for economic opportunities.
  • These whales migrate to warmer waters every winter.
• Transitive Verb (Computing Context): Used in technology and business contexts.
  • We need to migrate the database to a new server.

Examples

• Intransitive Usage:
  • Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of kilometers.
  • During the Gold Rush, many people migrated to California.
• Transitive Usage:
  • The company plans to migrate its email system to the cloud.

Advanced Usage

• "Migrate from... to...": This is the most common structure to specify the origin and destination of the movement.
  • The application will migrate from the old software to the new platform next month.
• "Migrate toward(s)": Can be used to indicate a general direction or trend.
  • Populations have been migrating towards urban centers for decades.

Variants and Related Words

• Migration (n): The act or process of migrating.
  • The annual bird migration is a spectacular sight.
• Migratory (adj): Characterized by migration; tending to migrate.
  • Swallows are migratory birds.
• Emigrate (v): To leave one's own country to settle permanently in another. (Focus is on leaving.)
• Immigrate (v): To come to live permanently in a foreign country. (Focus is on arriving.)

Synonyms

• Relocate: To move to a new place and establish one's home or business there.
• Resettle: To settle in a different place.
• Travel: To go from one place to another. (More general; does not imply settling.)

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Migrate" is not commonly used with particles to form phrasal verbs. The verb itself is typically used with prepositions like "from," "to," and "toward.")

Related Idioms

(Note: There are no common idioms that use the exact word "migrate." The concept is usually expressed directly.)

Học thuật

Verb

1. move periodically or seasonally
   • birds migrate in the Winter
   • The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting
2. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• transmigrate