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MIGRATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move from one country or region to another and settle there

Example:

This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries

Synonyms:

migrate; transmigrate

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "migrate" is one way to...):

move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)

Verb group:

migrate (move periodically or seasonally)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "migrate"):

immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)

immigrate (migrate to a new environment)

emigrate (leave one's country of residence for a new one)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

migrant (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

migration (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)

migration (a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period))

migrator (an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year)

migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

migratory (habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move periodically or seasonally

Example:

The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "migrate" is one way to...):

move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)

Verb group:

migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

migrant (habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work)

migration (the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding)

migratory (habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work)

migratory (used of animals that move seasonally)

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 Context examples: 

It also provides insight into how Earth and other planets in our solar system may have formed and migrated away from our star, the sun.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

It could have migrated there in a process called disk migration that takes hundreds of thousands of years.

(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)

Cells expressing GPR5 mobilize intracellular calcium and migrate in response to SCYC1 and SCYC2.

(Chemokine (C Motif) Receptor 1, NCI Thesaurus)

They found that worms migrated at angles consistent with vertical movement in their native soil.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

Although most melanomas arise in the skin, they also may arise from mucosal surfaces or at other sites to which neural crest cells migrate.

(Non-Cutaneous Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

A mature white blood cell, differentiated in the bone marrow, activated to preferentially migrate to the bone marrow.

(Bone Marrow-Homing Plasma Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

You’re about to see that migrating planets have by now moved into positions that perfectly support your Sun in Virgo.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Cleavage of Notch in the extracellular domain releases the Notch intracellular domain (BIOCARTAD) which migrates into the nucleus where it associates with CSL transcription factors and acts as a transcriptional coactivator.

(Notch Proteolysis and Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

They migrate through various tissues including the eye.

(Ocular Onchocerciasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Calpain2 (M-calpain) is believed to be membrane bound and functions at the trailing edge of the migrating cell to cleave the integrins in response to growth factor receptor signals.

(Calpain-2 Cell Motility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)