migrate
verb
[ mʌɪˈɡreɪt ]
• (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"
Similar:
roam,
wander,
drift,
rove,
travel (around),
voyage,
journey,
trek,
hike,
itinerate,
globetrot,
• move from one part of something to another.
• "cells that can form pigment migrate beneath the skin"
Similar:
relocate,
resettle,
move,
move house,
emigrate,
go abroad,
go overseas,
be posted,
defect,
trek,
pull up stakes,
up sticks,
flit,
remove,
• change or cause to change from one system to another.
• "customers are migrating from mainframes to client-server environments"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare .
