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Abandon vs Migrate - What's the difference?

abandon | migrate |

In lang=en terms the difference between abandon and migrate

is that abandon is to surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss while migrate is to move slowly towards, usually in groups.

As verbs the difference between abandon and migrate

is that abandon is (obsolete) to subdue; to take control of while migrate is to relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

As a noun abandon

is a yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences .

As an adverb abandon

is (obsolete|not comparable) freely; entirely.

abandon

English

Etymology 1

* From (etyl) abandounen, from (etyl) abandoner, formed from . See also (l), (l). * Displaced (etyl) forleten .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
  • To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
  • * Macaulay
    • He abandoned himself to his favourite vice.
  • To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
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  • To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
  • * (rfdate) I. Taylor:
    • Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .
    Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
  • (obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  • * 1594 , , The Taming of the Shrew , act I, scene ii:
    • Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
  • * Udall
    • that he might abandon them from him
  • To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
  • To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
    • Synonyms
    (synonyms of "abandon") * abdicate * blin * cede * desert * forego * forlet * forsake * give up * leave * quit * relinquish * renounce * resign * retire * surrender * withdraw from * withsake * yield
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "abandon") * aband * abandoned * abandonee * abandoner * abandonware
    Related terms
    * abandonment * abandonware

    Etymology 2

    * From (etyl), from (etyl) abandon, from abondonner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. .
  • * 1954 , , Messiah :
    • I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon : 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
  • * 2007 , Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, :
    • They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
  • (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
    • Synonyms
    * (giving up to impulses) wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
  • * 1330 , Arthour and Merlin :
    • His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun .

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    migrate

    English

    Verb

    (migrat)
  • To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
  • * Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again.
  • * Twice a year the Minnesotans migrate from their state to the Gulf of Mexico.
  • To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
    • Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.
  • To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
  • * To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
  • To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
  • * Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.
  • (computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
  • * They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.
  • (marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
    • We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.

    Usage notes

    Some people consider the jargonistic transitive form of this word to be improper, on the grounds that it is untraditional, and that if a transitive verb is to be constructed from migrate'' it should still be the subject that is doing the migrating. Alternatives include ''move'', ''herd'', ''transfer'', or ''relocate''. This objection is not widespread however, and ''migrate is the only term generally used to mean specifically the movement of computer code from one computer to another. Usually both computers are servers of some sort.

    Derived terms

    * emigrate * migratable * migration * immigrate * migratory

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