migratory

migrate | American Dictionary

migrate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈmɑɪ·ɡreɪt, mɑɪˈɡreɪt/
social studies
to move from one country or region to another, often temporarily:
Farm workers migrate at harvest time.
In September these birds migrate south.

migrant

noun[ C ]us/ˈmɑɪ·ɡrənt/
migrant workers

migrate | Business English

migrate
verb
uk /maɪˈɡreɪt/ us /ˈmaɪɡreɪt/
[ I ] ECONOMICS
to travel to a new place or country, usually in order to find work and live there temporarily or permanently:
migrate toMexican farm workers migrate to the US each year to find work at harvest time.
[ I ]
to move from one place to another:
Trade is migrating from local stores to the larger out-of-town hypermarkets.
[ I or T ] IT
to begin, or to make someone begin, using a new computer system:
Migrating to the new version of Windows shouldn't cause you any problems.
[ T ]
to move software or hardware from one computer system to another:
Migrating software can be a tricky and costly undertaking.

Examples of migrate

migrate
According to the model, these migrating populations brought with them ceramics and a sedentary maize-agriculture lifestyle.
Eosinophils were therefore mainly involved in protection against tissue migrating worms in secondary infections.
The present work is consistent with this report except for the number of migrating worms recovered in secondary infections.
Consider an electronic cash carrying agent which migrates to some supplier's server.
By following the cantilever displacements as the cells migrated over these cantilevers, they determined the distribution of tension exerted by the cells on the substrate.
In the present experiment subsequent infection of mice by somatically migrated larvae was examined.
Upon entering a snail, the parasite migrates to the heart and digestive gland where it transforms into successive stages of sporocysts.
In contrast, we found that larvae that had migrated to the brain remained there, although some migrated to the eyes.
By the middle of 1853 some 50,000 diggers had migrated to the valley, and a government camp had been established to administer the field.
Most of the trapped electrons remain close to the island separatrix, with only a few particles migrating towards the centre.
Radial glia function during development of the central nervous system as scaffolds for radially migrating neurons.
Appropriating the colonizers' claims to bring ' progress ', migrants attempted to achieve status and influence in the villages from which they had migrated.
Their sons migrated for reasons of economic hardship and personal insecurity following political harassment.
Their wives have never been employed and migrated to town through marriage.
Only one widower in the first cohort migrated.
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