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Migrate vs Depart - What's the difference?

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Migrate is a related term of depart.


As verbs the difference between migrate and depart

is that migrate is to relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons while depart is third-person singular indicative present of .

As a noun depart is

departure, start.

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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    depart

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To leave.
  • *Shakespeare
  • *:He which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart .
  • *2009 , George Monbiot, The Guardian , 7 September:
  • *:The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."
  • To set out on a journey.
  • *:
  • *:And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne
  • To die.
  • *Bible, Luke ii. 29:
  • *:Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
  • To deviate (from).
  • :His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
  • :to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
  • *Madison
  • *:if the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles
  • To go away from; to leave.
  • *Bible, 1 Sam. iv. 2:
  • *:The glory is departed from Israel.
  • *2009 , The Guardian , Sport Blog, 9 September:
  • *:The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.
  • (obsolete) To divide up; to distribute, share.
  • *:
  • *:and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
  • (obsolete) To separate, part.
  • *:
    • Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.
  • :(Shakespeare)

    • Synonyms

    * (to leave) duck out, go, go away, leave, part, pull up stakes, start, start out, set forth, split, set off, set out, take off, take leave, quit * (to die) die * (to deviate) deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary * (to go away from) leave

    Antonyms

    * (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conform

    Related terms

    * departure * dearly departed

    Noun

  • (obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .
  • (obsolete) A going away; departure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • At my depart for France.

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