migration

«migration» in Mova's school dictionary: The movement of animals, often in large groups, from one… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (migration, migrations)

meaning for a pupil

1) The movement of animals, often in large groups, from one place to another at the same time each year, to find food, warmth or a place to breed. tree →

2) The movement of people from one place or country to live in another. tree →

3) Migration can also mean a story or fable spreading from one country to another. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, birds such as swallows and geese fly south for winter, whales swim to warm seas, and wildebeest cross Africa — all migration. In geography and history, people migrate for work, safety or family. Phrases: «bird migration», «the great migration», «migration route».

examples

• Swallows fly to Africa during their migration. tree →
• Many birds use the stars on their migration. tree →
• The wildebeest migration crosses rivers full of crocodiles. tree →
• Whales make a long migration every year. tree →
• Some families come to a new country by migration. tree →
• Geese fly in a V shape during migration. tree →
• It is difficult to imagine that we have not here the actual migration of the tale from East to West. tree →

note

Mostly uncountable; countable for single journeys: «two migrations». Verb: migrate. People who migrate are migrants. Hibernation (sleeping through winter) is different from migration (moving away).

In the corpora

• Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.
• Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their country or abroad.
• Migration is a long journey animals make to find food, warmth or a place to have young.
• The Arctic tern makes one of the longest migrations, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «migration» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.