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Definitions: Immigrate |
ImmigrateVerb1. Migrate to a new environment, of plants and animals. 2. Introduce or send as immigrants; "Britain immigrated many colonists to America". 3. Come into a new country and change residency; "Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Immigrate \Im"mi*grate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Immigrated; present participle verb or noun Immigrating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Antonym: emigrate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Immigrate |
| English words defined with "immigrate": Immigrated, Immigrating, In-. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "immigrate": IMMIGRANT. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Beginning in February, children of female converts to Judaism are eligible to immigrate only if the children were born after the woman's conversion. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | During the year, the Ministry of Interior informed a Jewish citizen that the Government considered him to have "converted to another faith" because he was married in a church wedding in the U.S. In October the High Court ruled that the man was still Jewish and that his wife had the right to immigrate to the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | In addition to the approximately 16,000 Haitians who receive visas to immigrate into the U.S. annually, there is a flow of undocumented and illegal migrants. (references) |
Worker Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The law does not allow foreign workers the ability to obtain citizenship or permanent residence status, unless they happen to be Jewish, in which case they would qualify under the laws which allow for Jewish persons to immigrate. (references) |
Guyana | There are no laws that specifically prohibit trafficking in persons, and there were occasional reports of trafficking in persons of Chinese and South Asian origin, who would immigrate illegally to the United States under conditions amounting to debt bondage. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Immigrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Immigrate" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "immigrate": immigrate to israel. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
immigrate to canada | 42 |
immigrate | 30 |
immigrate to australia | 24 |
immigrate to new zealand | 9 |
immigrate to usa | 8 |
immigrate to the us | 5 |
immigrate quebec | 4 |
immigrate manitoba | 3 |
immigrate to the united state | 3 |
immigrate to america | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immigrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | immigreer. (various references) | |
Albanian | imigroj. (various references) | |
Arabic | â€Ù‡Ø¬Ø± (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), â€Ù‡Ø§Ø¬Ø± (emigrate, migrate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заÑелвам (colonize, denizen, people, pioneer, plant, populate, settle), имигрирам, довеждам (bring, bring round, carry, fetch, lead up to, produce). (various references) | |
Chinese | 移民 (to immigrate, to migrate). (various references) | |
Czech | přistìhovat se. (various references) | |
Dutch | immigreren. (various references) | |
Esperanto | enmigri. (various references) | |
Finnish | siirtyä (be postponed, be transferred, emigrate, move, shift), muuttaa maahan. (various references) | |
French | immigrer, transmigrer, faire rapatrier. (various references) | |
German | einwandern (migrate, to immigrate). (various references) | |
Greek | μεταναστεÏω (emigrate, emigrate from, immigrate to, migrate, transmigrate, trek). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bevándorol (to immigrate), betelepÃt (acclimate, to relocate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pindah (go about, swicth). (various references) | |
Italian | immigrare. (various references) | |
Manx | inymmyrkey, arraghey stiagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | innvandre. (various references) | |
Papiamen | imigrá. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immigrateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imigrar. (various references) | |
Romanian | imigra. (various references) | |
Russian | иммигрировать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | imigrirati, useliti se (move in), doseliti se (settle). (various references) | |
Spanish | inmigrar. (various references) | |
Swedish | invandra. (various references) | |
Thai | ส่งà¸à¸à¸à¹„ปà¸à¸¢à¸¹à¹ˆà¸—ี่à¸à¸·à¹ˆà¸™, à¸à¸žà¸¢à¸ž (evacuate, migrate). (various references) | |
Turkish | göçmen olarak getirmek, göçmen almak, göçmek (Dent, die, emigrate, fall in, go hence, migrate, transmigrate, trek), göç etmek (emigrate, expatriate oneself, migrate, transmigrate). (various references) | |
Ukranian | іммігрувати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immigrate": immigrated, immigrates. (additional references) | |
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"Immigrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emmigrate, imigrate, immgrate, immirate, mimagree, Minibrute. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immigrate" (pronounced i"mugrā't) |
| 6 | -m u g r ā' t | emigrate. |
| 5 | -u g r ā' t | disintegrate, integrate, reintegrate. |
| 4 | -g r ā' t | denigrate, migrate. |
| 3 | -r ā' t | administrate, airfreight, arbitrate, aspirate, birthrate, calibrate, carbohydrate, castrate, celebrate, concentrate, consecrate, demonstrate, frustrate, gyrate, hydrate, illustrate, infiltrate, magistrate, narrate, nitrate, orchestrate, penetrate, perpetrate, serrate, substrate, vertebrate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: maritime. | |
-2 letters: airtime, gammier, marmite, migrate, ragtime. | |
-3 letters: aigret, gaiter, gamier, gammer, gimmie, gramme, imager, imaret, maigre, maimer, megrim, mirage, mitier, tammie, triage. | |
-4 letters: aimer, armet, gamer, gemma, gimme, grate, great, grime, image, irate, mamie, marge, mater, merit, mimer, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, regma, remit, retag, retia, tamer, targe, terai, terga, tiger, timer, tragi. | |
-5 letters: ager, airt, amie, amir, emir, emit, gait, game, gate, gear, germ, geta, girt, gram, grat, grim, grit, imam, item, mage, magi, maim, mair, mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, mime, mire, miri, mite, rage, ragi, rami, rate, ream, rime, rite, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tier, time, tire, tram, trig, trim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: immigrated, immigrates. | |
+2 letters: magisterium. | |
+3 letters: epigrammatic, magisteriums. | |
+4 letters: commiserating, epigrammatism, epigrammatist, epigrammatize, ideogrammatic, mainstreaming, masterminding. | |
+5 letters: epigrammatisms, epigrammatists, epigrammatized, epigrammatizer, epigrammatizes, ferrimagnetism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 69 67 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -- .. --. .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m i g r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0069 0067 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437979757384678671 |
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