navigate

nav·i·gate

Use navigate in a sentence

A map will help you navigate.

verb

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

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

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navigate

intransitive verb

-·gat·ed, -·gat·ing

to steer, or direct, a ship or aircraft
to make one's way: to navigate through a crowded lobby
Rare to travel by ship

Origin of navigate

from Classical Latin navigatus, past participle of navigare, to sail from navis, a ship (see navy) + agere, to lead, go (see act)

to travel through or over (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft
to steer or direct (a ship or aircraft)
to plot the course for (a ship or aircraft)
to make one's way on or through, esp. in a skillful manner: to navigate rush-hour traffic, navigate the Internet

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navigate

verb

nav·i·gat·ed, nav·i·gat·ing, nav·i·gates

verb

intransitive

a. To plan and direct the course of a vessel or vehicle: sailors navigating by the stars.
b. To give directions to the driver of an automobile, especially by reading a map. Used of a passenger: You drive; I'll navigate.
c. To know or determine a migratory course. Used of an animal: How do butterflies navigate when they migrate?
a. To travel over a planned course or route, especially in a boat or ship: The sailors navigated to their favored fishing grounds.
b. To make or find a course or way: We navigated through the crowd. The boat navigated through the channel.
c. To make sequential progress through something: I navigated through the website without a problem.

verb

transitive

To direct (a vessel or vehicle) over a planned course.
a. To follow or find a course across, over, or through: navigate a stream; navigate the downtown streets.
b. To progress through (something) sequentially: navigate a set of instructions; navigate a website.

Origin of navigate

Latin nāvigāre nāvigāt- nāvis ship ; see nāu- in Indo-European roots. agere to drive, lead ; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)

To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.
He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
(intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
We navigated to France in the dinghy.
(intransitive, computing) To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

Origin

From Middle English navigate, from Latin navigo, from nÄvis (“ship") + agÅ (“do"), from Proto-Indo-European *nau- (boat), possibly, from Tamil à®¨à®¾à®µà®¾à®¯à¯ (nÄvÄi).

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navigate - Computer Definition

(1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web.

(2) To move through the menu structure in a software application.

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