Migrate vs Relay - What's the difference?
migrate | relay |
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.
(by extension) A new set of anything.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
To pass on or transfer (information).
In lang=en terms the difference between migrate and relay
is that migrate is to move slowly towards, usually in groups while relay is to pass on or transfer (information).As verbs the difference between migrate and relay
is that migrate is to relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons while relay is (obsolete|intransitive|hunting) to release a new set of hounds or relay can be .As a noun relay is
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Verb
(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.
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 * migratoryAnagrams
* ----relay
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
