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To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

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Twice a year the Minnesotans migrate from their state to the Gulf of Mexico.

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To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.

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Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.

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To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.

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To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.

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To move slowly towards, usually in groups.

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Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.

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: To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.

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They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.

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To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.

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We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.

The Russians do not emigrate as isolated individuals; they migrate in whole villages.

During and after supper, conversation seemed to continually migrate back to Cynthia.

Entire villages migrate after the harvest to the neighbourhood of some plentiful well.

Bats are social, nocturnal and they migrate to a warmer climate, or hibernate.

The decay that followed caused a number of Sabaeans to migrate to other parts of Arabia.

When peoplemigrate to other areas, the demographic of those areas will change.

But over time, as incomes around the world rise, people will migrate more and more to products associated with social practices that match their own ideals.

He proposed in 1846 to migrate to America, but went instead to Switzerland, where he earned his living as a teacher.

Soon afterwards a fresh revolt in Paris caused the king and the Assembly to migrate thither.

When a people migrate they may take with them their god, and if they conceive him to be a spiritual being who cannot be represented by an image, they may desire a symbolical expression of or, rather, a substitute for his presence.

The first and last cells that migrate from the yolk.

The Moros (275,224 wild and 2323 civilized) were the last of the Malays to migrate to the islands; they came after their conversion to the Mahommedan religion, and their migration continued until the Spanish conquest.

They issued from the land of Barsilia, and extended their rule over the Bulgarian hordes left masterless by the Turks, compelling the more stubborn to migrate to the Danube (641).

But vast tracts of land are useless except as pasture for sheep, and even the sheep are driven by the severe winters to migrate yearly into Estremadura (q.v.).

There is reason to believe that the anchovies found at the western end of the English Channel in November and December are those which annually migrate from the Zuider Zee and Scheldt in autumn, returning thither in the following spring; they must be held to form an isolated stock, for none come up from the south in summer to occupy the English Channel, though the species is resident on the coast of Portugal.

Others, like the song thrush, migrate to warmer areas.

When people migrate to other areas, the demographic of those areas will change.

Like all lowland Cilicia, it has a notoriously bad summer climate, and all inhabitants, who can do so, migrate to stations on the lower slopes of Taurus.

From time to time additional settlers arrived or shipwrecked mariners decided to remain; in 1827 five coloured women from St Helena were induced to migrate to Tristan to become the wives of the five bachelors then on the island.

Each year, bottlenose dolphins migrate along the English Channel from west to east.

In March, April and May, salmon and sea trout parr begin to migrate to the sea.

Later in the year, manta rays migrate up the coast in large numbers.

Female sea trout are more likely than males to migrate to sea.

About this time the Tekke Turkomans, then living on the Heri-rud, were forced by the Persians to migrate northward.

Olgierd's most memorable feat was his great victory over the Tatars at Siniya Vodui on the Bug in 1362, which practically broke up the great Kipchak horde and compelled the khan to migrate still farther south and establish his headquarters for the future in the Crimea.

Soon after his death the city fell into the hands of Lysimachus, who introduced fresh Greek colonists from Lebedus and Colophon and, it is said, by means of an artificial inundation compelled those who still dwelt in the plain by the temple to migrate to the city on the hills, which he surrounded by a solid wall.

The effect of this law was to place the Hottentots in more immediate dependence upon the farmers, or to compel them to migrate northward beyond the colonial border.

He began this work in the year 1574, and had finished the third book (Aranya-kand), when differences with the Vairagi Vaishnavas at Ajodhya, to whom he had attached himself, led him to migrate to Benares, where he settled at Asi-ghat.

Sometimes the winged females migrate from the plant they were born on to start fresh colonies on others often of quite a different kind.

Mature silver eels migrate downstream from the first stormy night in October for two weeks (Fig 3 ).

Neutrophils and monocytes circulate in the blood and migrate into the tissues at the post-capillary venule.

Hemoglobins migrate through this gel at various rates and to specific locations, depending on their size, shape, and electrical charge.

Check pets frequently for ticks, since ticks can migrate to children from pets.

Healing piercings may migrate or settle into a position that is slightly different than where they were initially pierced.

Cromwell, however, persevered, reminding Fortescue, who was left in command, that the war was one against the" Roman Babylon,"that they were" fighting the Lord's battles "; and he sent out reinforcements under Sedgwick, offering inducements to the New Englanders to migrate to Jamaica.

On the northern frontier of the empire he kept the Avars in check by inducing the Serbs to migrate from the Carpathians to the Balkan lands so as to divert the attention of the Avars.

Among birds are found bustard and species of sand-grouse and partridge; water-fowl in great variety, which breed on the lakes in summer and migrate to the plains of India in winter; the raven, hawks, eagles and owls, a magpie, and two kinds of chough; and many smaller birds of the passerine order, amongst which are several finches.

In the course of development, however, cells from the ectoderm and endoderm may migrate into it.

They are forced to migrate and often end up selling their bodies to earn a livelihood.

Their presence in wild bird reservoirs, especially those species known to migrate long distances, are potentially of high significance.

We were also invited to migrate our current Xbox Live account, which was a surprisingly painless process having already tied it to MSN.

Some Thysanoptera habitually dwell on the under-surface of leaves, and others periodically migrate to roots.

Pilling comes from nonstructural fabric fibers that migrate to the top of the fabric over time.

Once in the environment, they migrate through the water table, and can contaminate municipal water supplies, poison fish in local lakes, and damage the delicate balance of nature in our parks, wildlife refuges and neighborhoods.

They usually migrate to the South before the first snow hits the ground in their northern home towns and return in the spring when the weather is getting warm again.

Video game comics that start in the realm of gaming and migrate to the printed form can be fun, but the reverse can also be very engaging.

As development progresses, they migrate downward through the groin and into the scrotum.

The structures that form the diaphragm do not properly form, allowing the contents of the lower abdomen to migrate up near the heart and lungs.

The normal ridges and valleys of the mature brain are formed after cells from the inside of the developing brain migrate to the outside and multiply.

When these cells fail to migrate, the surface remains smooth, a condition called lissencephaly ("smooth brain").