To Migrate

(intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.(intransitive) To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.(intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.(intransitive) To move slowly towards, usually in groups.(transitive, computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.(transitive, marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.Usage notesSome people consider the jargonistic transitive form of this word to be improper, on the grounds that it is untraditional, and that if a transitive verb is to be constructed from migrate it should still be the subject that is doing the migrating. Alternatives include move, herd, transfer, or relocate. This objection is not widespread however, and migrate is the only term generally used to mean specifically the movement of computer code from one computer to another.