What's the difference between itinerant and migrant?

Itinerant


Definition:

  • (a.) Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
  • (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Active surveillance components included an itinerant chest clinic and survey chest roentgenography program, epidemiologic case investigations, and skin testing.
  • (2) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
  • (3) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
  • (4) You itinerate based on those failures - or as they say in technology "fail early and often", to develop a model that works.
  • (5) Hearing the story, I realise that present contentment – enjoying the gym, pool, doctor, bar and other conveniences – masks itinerant pasts, full of adventure.
  • (6) The most significant factors associated with partial immunisation were found to be the socioeconomic and educational status of the children's fathers and itinerancy.
  • (7) People were crushed when their new concrete homes collapsed, a risk they would not have faced in their itinerant life on the grasslands.
  • (8) Ivermectin's ability to inhibit worm migration through the tissues is discussed, with respect to the role of itinerant males in the reproductive cycle of Onchocerca volvulus.
  • (9) An interview with Cameron Crowe done over the course of that year for Rolling Stone gives a flavour of the time, Bowie living an itinerant lifestyle around spooky, decadent LA, culminating in a megalomaniacal rant: “I believe that rock’n’roll is dangerous.
  • (10) Such a reasoning strongly denounces the psychosocial problems of women, but tends to forget the vulnerability of men which is nonetheless clearly evident in official statistics on suicide, dependence on alcohol and other drugs, violence and itinerancy.
  • (11) Wasn’t reform exactly what was offered to the masses of the Hijaz by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the mid-18th century itinerant preacher who allied with the House of Saud?
  • (12) She left Michigan when her daughter was 16 and became itinerant, sleeping in her truck, because unlike plastic or drywall, metal emitted no chemical fumes and was safe.
  • (13) Tadini, an Italian by birth, was an itinerant ophthalmologist living in the second half of the eighteenth century.
  • (14) Sharma, the itinerant vendor, laughed at the idea of a refrigerated barrow, or an air-conditioned home.
  • (15) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
  • (16) There were no books in Darwish's own home and his first exposure to poetry was through listening to an itinerant singer on the run from the Israeli army.
  • (17) This surgery was frequently performed by itinerant mendicants, charlatans, and also by the more legitimate members of the surgical community living in the 13 states at the time of the Revolution.
  • (18) The main activities involve itinerant screening in the communities and group screening at the workplaces.
  • (19) Some Malians have sympathy with the Tuareg, who are dispersed across Saharan Africa , and whose culture and itinerant lifestyle are disappearing.
  • (20) Poor motivation, itinerancy and alcohol abuse were the most common factors causing difficulty.

Migrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Migratory.
  • (n.) A migratory bird or other animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (3) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (5) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (6) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
  • (7) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (8) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
  • (9) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (10) In addition, the UK government will provide further resources to the European Asylum Support Office to help Greece and Italy identify migrants, including children, who could be reunited with family members elsewhere in Europe.
  • (11) In a 2012 study submitted to the UN, the Petersburg-based centre alleged that Roma and migrants were routinely subjected to police torture .
  • (12) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
  • (13) As for the claim that British hospitals and GP surgeries would not be so full, a UCL study showed that EU migrants who have come since 2000 are most likely to be single people in their 20s and 30s – the age group least likely to usehealth services.
  • (14) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (15) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
  • (16) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
  • (17) My every instinct is to stand with those who defend migrants and migration.
  • (18) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
  • (19) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
  • (20) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.