English

Etymology
From L. migratus (past participle of migrare).

Pronunciation
IPA|/maɪgr�t/

Intransitive verb
rfc-trverb|Intransitive verb
en-verb|migrat|ing

1. To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.

#* To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.

1. To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

#* Twice a year the geese migrate—from Florida to Canada and back again.

1. To move slowly towards, usually in groups.

#* Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.

Translations

Finnish: siirtyä (1); muuttaa (2)
French: migrer
German: migrieren
mid
Japanese: 移���, 移��� (1); 渡� (for birds), ���� (for fish) (2)
Swedish: migrera (1,2)

Transitive verb
en-verb|migrat|ing

1. computing: To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.

#* They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.

Usage notes
Some people consider the jargonistic transitive form of this word to be improper, on the grounds that it is untraditional, and that if a transitive verb is to be constructed from migrate it should still be the subject that is doing the migrating. Alternatives include move, herd, transfer, or relocate. This objection is not widespread however, and migrate is the only term generally used to mean specifically the movement of computer code from one computer to another. Usually both computers are server|servers of some sort.

Derived terms
migration
migratory

Related terms
emigrate
immigrant
immigrate
immigration

Translations
trans-top|to move computer code or files
trans-mid
Japanese: 移��� (ik�-suru)
Swedish: överföra, migrera, flytta
trans-bottom

Category:Jargon:Computer

Italian

Verb
migrate

1. form of|second-person|Second-person plural present tense|migrare#Italian|migrare|lang=Italian
2. form of|Second-person plural imperative|migrare#Italian|migrare|lang=Italian
3. form of|feminine|Feminine plural|migrato

Category:Italian past participle forms
Category:Italian verb forms

ar:migrate
fa:migrate
fr:migrate
io:migrate
fi:migrate
te:migrate
vi:migrate
zh:migrate

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