migrated; migrating; migrates
1
intransitive
: to move from one country, place, or locality to another
Thousands of workers migrate to this area in the summer.
In another Bavarian village, … 48 out of its total Jewish population of 225 migrated to America between 1834 and 1853, mostly to Cleveland.—Jonathan D. Sarna
… the Carolinas benefited when manufacturing migrated first from … England to the mill towns of New England and then to here, where labor was even cheaper …—Stephanie Clifford
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intransitive
: to pass usually periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding
The whales migrate between their feeding ground in the north and their breeding ground in the Caribbean.
… migrating birds making the long flight over Lake Erie from the United States to Canada drop to the nearest available ground after the crossing.—Kathryn K. Rushing
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transitive
: to relocate (information) from storage or operation on one computer or computer system to another
In this release we've made further improvements and changes, such as support to migrate files from the legacy model to the new … storage model, and better management of cached files.—Dave Burke
Work-from-home mandates will most likely be experienced again, so companies are adding work-from-home technology to their business continuity planning. This includes accelerating considerations and plans to migrate applications and file servers to the cloud …—Steve Shoemake and Franzuha Byrd
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intransitive
: to change position or location in an organism or substance
filarial worms migrate within the human body
migrator
ˈmī-ˌgrā-tər
noun
mī-ˈgrā-
plural migrators
While … some birds that migrate at night take directional cues from polarized light at twilight, there has been little evidence that daytime migrators make direct use of the sun.
—Henry Fountain
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