Definition of migrate
migrated
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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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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
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For all the hype of an urban renaissance, Americans continue to migrate to the low-density suburbs of car-dependent urban areas.
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In future studies, Krause hopes to collect more mummy DNA from around Egypt to pinpoint when and why ancient Egyptians began to change genetically—and to find out exactly how their ancestors migrated to the fertile crescent in the first place.
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Although anchors at the major broadcast networks have lost some cachet in the past decade as viewers have increasingly migrated to cable news channels, the role is still viewed as a coveted news assignment.
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Although anchors at the major broadcast networks have lost some cachet in the last decade as viewers have increasingly migrated to cable news channels, the role is still viewed as a coveted news assignment.
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Snow geese were also migrating, in numbers that seemed infinite.
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The series was born on G4 in 2009, migrated to NBC in 2012 and premieres its ninth season on June 12.
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Between April and May, gray whales begin to migrate from their calving waters in Mexico to the feeding waters near Alaska.
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By 2005, technology previously confined to aircraft's onboard electric systems successfully migrates to automobiles.
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Origin and Etymology of migrate
Latin migratus, past participle of migrare; perhaps akin to Greek ameibein to change
First Known Use: circa 1623
Other Ecology Terms
MIGRATE Defined for English Language Learners
migrate
playDefinition of migrate for English Language Learners
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: to move from one country or place to live or work in another
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of a bird or animal : to move from one area to another at different times of the year
MIGRATE Defined for Kids
migrate
playDefinition of migrate for Students
migrated
;migrating
1 : to move from one country or region to another Families migrated west in search of work.
2 : to pass from one region to another on a regular basis Many birds migrate south for the winter.
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of migrate
migrated
;migrating
: to move from one place to another: asa: to move from one site to another in a host organism especially as part of a life cycle filarial worms migrate within the human bodybof an atom or group : to shift position within a molecule
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