Vocab Tadka : Emigrate vs Immigrate vs Migrate (Confusing Words)
Lets discuss the the difference between confusing words Emigrate, Immigrate and Migrate.
EMIGRATE
| 1 | (v) | leave one’s country of residence for a new one Type: ‘verb.change’ |
Sentence Usage :
- The Russians do not emigrate as isolated individuals; they migrate in whole villages.
- Many now emigrate, when occasion offers, to America.
- He did not emigrate after the taking of the Bastille, but, possibly from motives of ambition, remained in Paris.
How to Remember : Emigrate = from a country (Exiting) Immigrate = to (Into a country)
IMMIGRATE
| 1 | (v) | migrate to a new environment Type: ‘verb.change’ |
| 2 | (v) | introduce or send as immigrants Type: ‘verb.change’ |
| 3 | (v) | come into a new country and change residency Type: ‘verb.change’ |
Sentence Usage :
- The over-involvement of children of families who have recently immigrated is only relevant if one holds the child responsible for the accident.
- Immigrate illegally?
- His father Henri Grusin had also immigrated from Riga, Latvia around 1913.
How to Remember : Emigrate = from a country (Exiting) Immigrate = to (Into a country)
MIGRATE
| 1 | (v) | move from one country or region to another and settle there Type: ‘verb.motion’ Synonym: transmigrate, |
| 2 | (v) | move periodically or seasonally Type: ‘verb.motion’ |
Sentence Usage :
- During and after supper, conversation seemed to continually migrate back to Cynthia.
- The first and last cells that migrate from the yolk.
- About this time the Tekke Turkomans, then living on the Heri-rud, were forced by the Persians to migrate northward.
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