{
    "term": "migrate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "migrate",
            "heSheIt": "migrates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "migrated",
        "pastParticiple": "migrated",
        "ingForm": "migrating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to move from one part of the world to another according to the season",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Swallows migrate south in winter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Migrating birds often rest and feed in the marshes here."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Birds"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["north", "northwards", "etc."],
                "preposition": ["from", "into", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to move from one town, country, etc. to go and live and/or work in another",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several thousand years ago whole populations migrated to north-west Europe."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "emigrate",
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["north", "northwards", "etc."],
                "preposition": ["from", "into", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to move from one place to another",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The infected cells then migrate to other areas of the body."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["north", "northwards", "etc."],
                "preposition": ["from", "into", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to change, or cause somebody to change, from one computer system to another",
            "sensetop": "migrate (somebody)",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to move programs or hardware from one computer system to another",
            "sensetop": "migrate something",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪˈɡreɪt/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrate__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪˈɡreɪts/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪˈɡreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪˈɡreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪɡreɪt/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪɡreɪts/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪɡreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪɡreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "mi/migrate/migrating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare."
}