migrate

verb mi·grate \ ˈmī-ˌgrāt , mī-ˈ \

|Updated on: 2 Aug 2018

Examples: migrate in a Sentence

Definition of migrate

migrated; migrating

intransitive verb

1 : to move from one country, place, or locality to another

Thousands of workers migrate to this area in the summer.

2 : 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.

3 : to change position or location in an organism or substance

filarial worms migrate within the human body

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migrator

play \ˈmī-ˌgrā-tər, mī-ˈ\ noun

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Examples of migrate in a Sentence

He migrates from New York to Florida each winter.
Thousands of workers migrate to this area each summer.
The whales migrate between their feeding ground in the north and their breeding ground in the Caribbean.
They followed the migrating herds of buffalo across the plains.

Recent Examples of migrate from the Web

In addition, the country’s economy has improved, reducing the need to migrate for income, and its fertility rate has declined to 2.2 children per woman from a peak of 6.8.

— jo craven mcginty, WSJ, "The Changing Face of Illegal Border Crossings," 13 July 2018
In some cases, people appear to have used their Fan IDs to enter Russia as a stepping stone in attempts to migrate to European Union countries.

— Fox News, "60 Nigerians brought to Russia for World Cup ask for help," 13 July 2018
Isaac Babcock The town also is left with room to migrate to higher ground if necessary.

— amy green, miamiherald, "With Gov. Scott and legislature in denial, tiny town adapts on its own to climate change," 11 July 2018
But the problem of climate security isn’t limited to a corner of Africa; current estimates suggest that anywhere from 25 million to 1 billion people will be forced to migrate because of the changing climate by 2050.

— ciara nugent, Time, "Land Conflict Has Long Been a Problem in Nigeria. Here’s How Climate Change Is Making It Worse," 28 June 2018
The organization’s activism continued to migrate from the river current and concert stages to the courthouse and legislative chambers.

— Billboard, "Aboard the Clearwater: Five Decades of Environmental Activism Rooted In Music," 13 June 2018
Thunderstorm outlooks through Tuesday suggest heavier, more organized storms will continue to migrate along this front, likely bypassing the metro area.

— tom skilling, chicagotribune.com, "Heavy rain threat wanes as storms shift south," 10 June 2018
The company's in-house service, CodePlex, was shuttered last year, with the advice being to migrate CodePlex projects to GitHub.

— peter bright, Ars Technica, "Microsoft snaps up GitHub for $7.5 billion," 4 June 2018
But they’ve never been studied with the process still under way, before planets have a chance to migrate and rearrange themselves.

— joshua sokol, WIRED, "These Spinning Disks of Gas and Dust Reveal How Planets Get Made," 28 May 2018

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