different between emigrate vs migrate

English

Etymology

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??m?.gr?t'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em?i?grate

Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

Antonyms

• immigrate

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

Translations

Further reading

• emigrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• emigrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• emigrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

Italian

Adjective

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Noun

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

Verb

emigrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emigrare
2. second-person plural imperative of emigrare
3. feminine plural past participle of emigrato

Anagrams

• mergiate, regimate, remigate

Latin

Verb

?migr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?migr?

English

Etymology

From Latin migratus, past participle of migr? (“migrate, change, transport”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?.???e?t/, /?ma?.??e?t/

Verb

migrate (third-person singular simple present migrates, present participle migrating, simple past and past participle migrated)

1. (intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
2. (intransitive) To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.

3. (intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
4. (intransitive) To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
5. (transitive, computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
6. (transitive, marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• migrant

Translations

Anagrams

• Tregami, ragtime

Italian

Verb

migrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of migrare
2. second-person plural imperative of migrare
3. feminine plural of migrato

Anagrams

• gremita

Latin

Verb

migr?te

1. second-person plural present imperative of migr?

Participle

migr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of migr?tus