different between roam vs migrate

English

Etymology

From Middle English romen, from Old English r?mian, from Proto-Germanic *raim?n? (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h?reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ?r?man (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German r?m?n (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /???m/
• (General American) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /?o?m/
• Homophones: Rome
• Rhymes: -??m

Verb

roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)

1. (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]

     Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam. Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.

2. (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
3. (transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
   • 2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development

     At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.

4. (transitive) To range or wander over.

Synonyms

• (wander freely): err, shrithe, wander

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Amor, Mora, Omar, Oram, Roma, moar, mora, roma

Portuguese

Verb

roam

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of roer
2. third-person plural imperative of roer

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