Wednesday, October 12, 2011

|ˈmīˌgrāt|

migrate

verb [ intrans. ]

(of an animal, typically a bird or fish) move from one region or habitat to another, esp. regularly according to the seasons : as autumn arrives, the birds migrate south.

• (of a person) move from one area or country to settle in another, esp. in search of work : rural populations have migrated to urban areas.

• move from one specific part of something to another : cells that can form pigment migrate beneath the skin.

• Computing change or cause to change from using one system to another.

• [ trans. ] Computing transfer (programs or hardware) from one system to another.

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