different between immigrate vs migrate

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??m?.gr?t'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• Homophone: emigrate (pin-pen merger)

Etymology

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Verb

immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)

1. (intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.

Antonyms

• emigrate

Derived terms

• immigrant
• immigration

Related terms

• migrate

Translations

Italian

Adjective

immigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of immigrato

Noun

immigrate f

1. plural of immigrata

Verb

immigrate

1. second-person plural present of immigrare
2. second-person plural imperative of immigrare
3. feminine plural past participle of immigrare

Latin

Verb

immigr?te

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

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