different between migrate vs hibernate

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

Alternative forms

• hivernate, hybernate (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin h?bern?tus, from h?bern?re, from h?bernus (“winter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?b??ne?t/

Verb

hibernate (third-person singular simple present hibernates, present participle hibernating, simple past and past participle hibernated)

1. (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body-temperature, slow breathing and heart-rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.

2. (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
3. (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
   • 2001, Microsoft Corp, Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries

     Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.

Antonyms

• aestivate, estivate

Related terms

• hibernal
• hibernation
• hibernator

Translations

See also

• oversummer
• overwinter

Anagrams

• breathe in, inbreathe

Latin

Verb

h?bern?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of h?bern?