English words for 'A higher than normal amount of migration'
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- migratory
- having transportation available
- moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
- affording change (especially in social status)
- capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
noun
- sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
- (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.
- (telephony, UK, Ireland, India) Ellipsis of mobile phone.
- (sculpture) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- An object capable of moving under its own power.
- One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
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- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
- (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
- Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
- traveler who moves from one region or country to another
noun
- a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population
- a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in
- a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
- The action of irrupting or breaking into; a violent entry or invasion; an inbreaking; an intrusion.
- (by extension) An abrupt increase in the size of a movement or organization.
- (ecology) An abrupt increase of an animal population.
noun
- a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
- Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
- (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
- (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
- An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
- Movement in general.
noun
- migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
- the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
- The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
- The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
verb
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- the change in a country or region when its population migrates from urban to rural areas
- the process of making rural.
- the process of the formation of villages and the decline of big cities
- the proportion of a region's population that live in villages and small communities; the rate at which this proportion is growing
verb
- move in large numbers
- supply in large amounts or quantities
- flow in a spurt
- rain heavily
- cause to run
- pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment
- Misspelling of pore.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
- (transitive) To move (a drunk or unsteady person) into or out of a place or vehicle.
- (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
- (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
- (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
- (impersonal) To rain hard.
- (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
- (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
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verb
- move in large numbers
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
- rain heavily
- flow freely and abundantly
- exude profusely
- (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
- (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
- (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
- (Internet) To livestream.
- (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
noun
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
- (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
- A live stream.
- Current, the force of moving water.
- (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
- (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- An instance of streaming digital data.
verb
- move in large numbers
- be teeming, be abuzz
- (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
- To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
- (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
- To breed multitudes.
- (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
- (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
noun
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a moving crowd
- (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
- (seismology) A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.
- A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
- A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
verb
- move in large numbers
- be teeming, be abuzz
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
- To pour (especially with rain)
- (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
noun
noun
- an increase in rate of change
- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- (physics) a rate of increase of velocity
- The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
- (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
- (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
- (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
verb
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
- To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
verb
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
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name
- Initialism of Institute for the Study of International Migration.
- (zoology) Initialism of International Society for Invertebrate Morphology.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of IP Multimedia Services Identity Module.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Integrated Science Instrument Module, a component of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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- The amount of increase.
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
- (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
- (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the amount by which something increases
verb
noun
noun
- a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population
- a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in
- a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
- The action of irrupting or breaking into; a violent entry or invasion; an inbreaking; an intrusion.
- (by extension) An abrupt increase in the size of a movement or organization.
- (ecology) An abrupt increase of an animal population.
noun
- a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
- Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
- (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
- (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
- An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
- Movement in general.
noun
- migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
- the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
- The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
- The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
noun
- the change in a country or region when its population migrates from urban to rural areas
- the process of making rural.
- the process of the formation of villages and the decline of big cities
- the proportion of a region's population that live in villages and small communities; the rate at which this proportion is growing
noun
- an increase in rate of change
- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- (physics) a rate of increase of velocity
- The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
- (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
- (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
- (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
noun
- The amount of increase.
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
- (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
- (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the amount by which something increases
verb
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noun
verb
- move in large numbers
- supply in large amounts or quantities
- flow in a spurt
- rain heavily
- cause to run
- pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment
- Misspelling of pore.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
- (transitive) To move (a drunk or unsteady person) into or out of a place or vehicle.
- (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
- (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
- (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
- (impersonal) To rain hard.
- (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
- (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
noun
verb
- move in large numbers
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
- rain heavily
- flow freely and abundantly
- exude profusely
- (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
- (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
- (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
- (Internet) To livestream.
- (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
noun
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
- (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
- A live stream.
- Current, the force of moving water.
- (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
- (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- An instance of streaming digital data.
verb
- move in large numbers
- be teeming, be abuzz
- (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
- To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
- (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
- To breed multitudes.
- (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
- (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
noun
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a moving crowd
- (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
- (seismology) A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.
- A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
- A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
verb
- move in large numbers
- be teeming, be abuzz
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
- To pour (especially with rain)
- (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
noun
verb
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
- To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
verb
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
noun
adj
adj
adj
- migratory
- having transportation available
- moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
- affording change (especially in social status)
- capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
noun
- sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
- (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.
- (telephony, UK, Ireland, India) Ellipsis of mobile phone.
- (sculpture) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- An object capable of moving under its own power.
- One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
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- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
- (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
- Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
- traveler who moves from one region or country to another