migrating
Moving to warmer climates
Migrating is the present participle of migrate, describing movement from one place to another.
Birds and other animals migrate seasonally, following food sources or favorable weather: migrating geese flew overhead.
People migrate for work, safety, or opportunity.
Data migrates between systems during software upgrades.
The word emphasizes the process of movement rather than arrival.
Egg-laying flying vertebrates
- monarch butterfliesMigratory orange-and-black lepidopterans
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- whalesMassive marine mammals
- salmonPink-fleshed migratory fish
wildebeest · zebra · sea turtles · geese · swallows · hummingbirds · cranes · storks
Changing one's residence
- movingEmotionally affecting
- shiftingChanging position or form
- transitioningPassing from one state another
- transferringMoving between locations
traversing · journeying · progressing · advancing · proceeding · navigating · crossing · passing
People seeking safety elsewhere
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- expatriatesPeople living outside homeland
- asylum seekersPeople requesting safe haven
- displacedShifted from proper location
deportees · settlers · pioneers · diaspora · exodus · resettlement · relocation · naturalization
Recoiling metal spiral
- autumnPost-summer cooling period
- winterYear's coldest quarter
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
overwintering · hibernation · cyclical · annual · patterns · timing · cues · temperature
birds
Egg-laying flying vertebrates
- monarch butterfliesMigratory orange-and-black lepidopterans
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- whalesMassive marine mammals
salmon · wildebeest · zebra · sea turtles · geese · swallows · hummingbirds · cranes · storks · eels
relocating
Changing one's residence
- movingEmotionally affecting
- shiftingChanging position or form
- transitioningPassing from one state another
transferring · traversing · journeying · progressing · advancing · proceeding · navigating · crossing · passing · trekking
refugees
People seeking safety elsewhere
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- expatriatesPeople living outside homeland
- asylum seekersPeople requesting safe haven
displaced · deportees · settlers · pioneers · diaspora · exodus · resettlement · relocation · naturalization · citizenship
spring
Recoiling metal spiral
- autumnPost-summer cooling period
- winterYear's coldest quarter
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
spawning · overwintering · hibernation · cyclical · annual · patterns · timing · cues · temperature · climate
tribes
Ancestral social groups
- BedouinsNomadic Arab desert peoples
- pastoralistsPeople raising grazing animals
- nomadsUnsettled, roving people
herders · Tuareg · Mongols · Kazakhs · Maasai · Sami · yurts · caravans · livestock · grazing
transfer
Move between locations
- portingAdapting for compatibility
- conversionAct of changing states
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
database · cloud · server · platform · legacy · backup · importing · exporting · files · storage
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- bird behaviorsflying, soaring, perching, nesting, preening
- transfertransfer, transferring, transference, transmittal, transmitting
- Moving Statusrelocating, relocated, moving, moved, in transit
- software tasksdownloading, installing, debugging, compiling, upgrading
- pest behaviorbiting, chewing, gnawing, burrowing, infesting
migratingstaying
Continuing in place
staying put · remaining · sedentary · stationary · non-migrating
migratingresident
One who inhabits
settled · indigenous · native · established · permanent
- urban migrationPopulation movement toward cities
- bird migrationSeasonal long-distance avian travel
- migration routePath animals travel seasonally
- mass migrationLarge group relocation
- animal migrationPeriodic wildlife travel patterns
- migration patternsRegular paths species travel
migration, immigration, emigration, migrations, transmigration, emigrations, immigrations