verb

migrate; 3rd person present: migrates; past tense: migrated; past participle: migrated; gerund or present participle: migrating

 

1. (Of an animal, typically a bird or fish) move from one region or habitat to another according to the seasons.

"as autumn arrives, the birds migrate south"

 

2. (Of a person) move to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions.

"rural populations have migrated to urban areas"

 

3. Move from one part of something to another.

"cells that can form pigment migrate beneath the skin"

 

4. Computing - to chhange or cause to change from one system to another.

"customers are migrating from mainframes to client-server environments"

 

5. Computing - to transfer (programs or hardware) from one system to another.

"the system will allow users to migrate applications across environments"