Tourist vs Migrate - What's the difference?
tourist | migrate |
Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business.
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(derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
(sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
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.
As a noun tourist
is tourist.As a verb migrate is
to relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.tourist
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(Tourism)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* touristic * tourist office * tourist trap * touristymigrate
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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.