different between migrate vs expatriate

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

English

Etymology

From French expatrier, from ex- (“out of”) + patrie (“native land”).

Pronunciation

• Adjective and noun: IPA^(key): /?ks?pæt???t/, /?ks?pe?.t?i.?t/
• Verb: IPA^(key): /?ks?pæt???e?t/, /?ks?pe?.t?i?e?t/
• Hyphenation: ex?pa?tri?ate

Adjective

expatriate (not comparable)

1. Living outside of one's own country.

Translations

Noun

expatriate (plural expatriates)

1. One who lives outside their own country.
   1. One who has been banished from their own country.

Synonyms

• émigré
• outland

Derived terms

• expat
• rex-pat, rex-patriate

Related terms

• inpatriate
• repatriate

Translations

See also

• emigrant
• exile
• immigrant

Verb

expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriating, simple past and past participle expatriated)

1. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
2. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
3. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Related terms

• repatriate
• patriate

Translations