MIGRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does migrate mean? 

• MIGRATE (verb)
  The verb MIGRATE has 2 senses:

1. move from one country or region to another and settle there

2. move periodically or seasonally

  Familiarity information: MIGRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIGRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they migrate    ... he / she / it migrates   
Past simple: migrated   
Past participle: migrated   
-ing form: migrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move from one country or region to another and settle there

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

migrate; transmigrate

Context example:

This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries

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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Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting

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:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

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)

 Context examples 

The patches migrate from day to day and usually resolve without treatment.

(Benign Migratory Glossitis, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual that has migrated from a country with a high occurrence of tuberculosis.

(Immigrant From High Tuberculosis Prevalent Area, NCI Thesaurus)

This process may sometimes allow cancer cells to migrate from capillaries to adjacent tissues, initiating micro-metastases.

(Extravasation, NCI Thesaurus)

TILs are white blood cells that migrate from the bloodstream into a tumor.

(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)

The blockage of a blood vessel lumen by air or solid material such as blood clot or other tissues (e.g., adipose tissue, cancer cells) that have migrated from another anatomic site.

(Embolism, NCI Thesaurus)

Secreted IL-5 stimulates production and maturation of eosinophils in bone marrow that migrate to tissues in response to eotaxin and release factors that damage tissues, causing some of the undesirable consequences of inflammation.

(IL5 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

One idea about Ceres' origins holds that it formed farther out in the solar system, perhaps in the vicinity of Neptune, but migrated in to its present location.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

Other exoplanets, called "hot Jupiters," are thought to form far from their stars and over time migrate much closer.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

They used mouse models of glioblastoma, fluorescent dyes and a variety of imaging techniques to see how tumor cells migrate through the brain and interact with other cells and blood vessels.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)

Once in the patient, the engineered dendritic cells migrate to the lymph node and activate T cells to fight the tumor and create an immune memory to prevent the cancer from coming back.

(Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer, NIH)