navigate

To navigate is to plan your course or to steer, guide or move through something.

(verb)

  1. When you draw out a route to take on a map, this is an example of a time when you navigate.
  2. When you steer and guide a ship to its destination, this is an example of a time when you navigate.
  3. When you move through a crowd carefully, this is an example of a time when you navigate the crowd.

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See navigate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb navigated, navigating

  1. to steer, or direct, a ship or aircraft
  2. Informal to make one's way; walk
  3. Rare to travel by ship

Origin: < L navigatus, pp. of navigare, to sail < navis, a ship (see navy) + agere, to lead, go (see act)

transitive verb

  1. to travel through or over (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft
  2. to steer or direct (a ship or aircraft)
  3. to plot the course for (a ship or aircraft)
  4. Informal to walk or make one's way on or through

See navigate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb nav·i·gat·ed, nav·i·gat·ing, nav·i·gates
verb, transitive
  1. To plan, record, and control the course and position of (a ship or aircraft).
  2. To follow a planned course on, across, or through: navigate a stream.
verb, intransitive
  1. To control the course of a ship or aircraft.
  2. To voyage over water in a boat or ship; sail.
  3. a. To make one's way: navigated with difficulty through the crowd.
    b. Informal To walk: He was too unsteady on his legs to navigate.

Origin:

Origin: Latin nāvigāre, nāvigāt-

Origin: : nāvis, ship; see nāu- in Indo-European roots

Origin: + agere, to drive, lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots

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