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Abdomen vs Migrate - What's the difference?

abdomen | migrate |

As a noun abdomen

is the fat surrounding the belly.

As a verb migrate is

to relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

abdomen

English

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly.
  • (anatomy) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions.
  • (anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
    • He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
  • (zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

    • Synonyms

    * belly * stomach * tummy

    Related terms

    * abdominal * abdominally * abdominous

    References

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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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