NAVIGATE

voyage, sail, navigate

(verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; “The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow”

navigate

(verb) direct carefully and safely; “He navigated his way to the altar”

navigate, pilot

(verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance; “Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?”; “Who was navigating the ship during the accident?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc, on a journey; to follow a planned course.

(intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.

(intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.

(transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.

(transitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

Hyponyms

• circumnavigate

Anagrams

• vaginate

Source: Wiktionary

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Nav"i*gate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Navigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Navigating.] Etym: [L. navigatus, p.p. of navigare, v.t. & i.; navis ship + agere to move, direct. See Nave, and Agent.]

Definition: To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot.

Nav"i*gate, v. t.

1. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.

2. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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