Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To plan, record, and control the course and position of (a ship or aircraft).
- v. To follow a planned course on, across, or through: navigate a stream.
- v. To control the course of a ship or aircraft.
- v. To voyage over water in a boat or ship; sail.
- v. To make one's way: navigated with difficulty through the crowd.
- v. Informal To walk: He was too unsteady on his legs to navigate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To move from place to place in a ship; sail.
- To direct or manage a ship.
- To pass over in ships; sail on.
- To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; direct the course of, as a vessel, from one place to another: as, to navigate a ship.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.
- v. intransitive To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
- v. intransitive, computing To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To journey 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.
- v. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.
- v. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles.
- v. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on.
- v. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen.
- v. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles.
WordNet 3.0
- v. travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
- v. direct carefully and safely
- v. act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
Etymologies
- From Middle English navigate, from Latin navigo, from nāvis ("ship") + agō ("do"), from Proto-Indo-European *nau- (boat), possibly, from Tamil நாவாய் (nāvāi). (Wiktionary)
- Latin nāvigāre, nāvigāt- : nāvis, ship; + agere, to drive, lead. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I use the word "navigate" because I tend to think of the chemical world as an unfinished map.”
“Now if only there were an easy way to navigate from the page the RSS takes me to, directly to the comic.”
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“But inability to navigate is as incomprehensible to me as colorblindness, or discalculia.”
“Once upon a time I was able to skate down stairs, jump curbs, slolam down steep hills, in short, navigate just about any urban situation that got thrown at me.”
“It’s just that an easy way to navigate is to use the names of objects as benchmarks.”
“Handed a political landscape of broad competing interests, the best way to navigate is to offer a broad but concrete goal and jump hurdles.”
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“I've found the most convenient way to navigate is to after selecting a year, click on the title page and then select the 'Vorschau' tab.”
“A great way to navigate is to check out a directory of stores that qualify as sanctioned “green” shopping sites.”
“The river upon which we embarked is called Mesconsin [Wisconsin]; the river is very wide, but the sand bars make it very difficult to navigate, which is increased by numerous islands covered with grape-vines.”
“Today's dating scene is tough to navigate, which is why Intelius developed Date Check, a free mobile app that deciphers fact from fiction in the palm of your hand.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘navigate’.
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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AGRI - apiculture
acacia, alfalfa, Arbutus unedo, ash content, baker's honey, Banksia menziesii, bee plant, Bell heather, blackberry honey, blend of honeys, blossom honey, borage and 183 more...
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Whooping Crane
Words for the Whooping Crane Alphabet book
ultralight, patuxent, maryland, wisconsin, florida, people, chick, juvenile, adult, swamp monster, teach, learn and 48 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, N
nurdled, naumachia, nystagmus, nephology, nigh, noctilucent, noctambulant, nocebo, neap, napiform, nacelle, node and 95 more...
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
sloop, frigate, brigantine, brig, grog, schooner, rig, sail, canvas, jib, forestay, cutter and 150 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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do the locomotion
Ways of walking, running, skipping, etc. Not included: assisted locomotion (riding, driving, boating). These verbs should more or less fit the paradigm: She _______ (her way) into/out of/through/ar...
stagger, stumble, dart, dash, run, walk, mince, sashay, strut, stride, move, go and 108 more...
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"Drive" Verbs
drive, ramble, tour, commute, advance, cruise, pilot, helm, propel, operate, coast, steer and 19 more...
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moving driving words
act, active, actor, actual, actuary, actuate, agendum, agent, agile, agitate, allege, ambage and 47 more...
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ashtonhaley's Words
contrapposto, vox populi, unabashed, convivial, quagmire, insurgence, altruism, alchemy, think, invent, aesthetic, innovate and 43 more...
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jhughson's Words
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suprabha
name for suprabha
Tweets
Looking for tweets for navigate.

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