Immigrate vs Migrate - What's the difference?
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To move into a country from another one to stay permanently.
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.
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.
Migrate is a derived term of immigrate.
Migrate is a related term of immigrate.
In intransitive terms the difference between immigrate and migrate
is that immigrate is to move into a country from another one to stay permanently while migrate is to move slowly towards, usually in groups.immigrate
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(immigrat)Antonyms
* emigrateDerived terms
* immigrant * immigrationmigrate
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(migrat)- Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.
- We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.