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Definition migrate in American English

migrate verb

verb
/ˈmaɪˌɡreɪt/
1

to go to another place or country in order to work

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2

if a bird or animal migrates, it travels to another part of the world for warmer weather at a particular time of the year

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3

to start to use a different computer system, or to make someone do this

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4

to move software or hardware to a different computer system

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5

if cells migrate, they move to a specific place in the body

Example

Her work showed that the cells migrate to many different sites in the embryo.

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Definition migrate in American English