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Navigate

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Verb

1. navigate, sail, voyage

travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

Example Sentences:
'The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow'

2. navigate, pilot

act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance

Example Sentences:
'Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?'
'Who was navigating the ship during the accident?'

3. navigate

direct carefully and safely

Example Sentences:
'He navigated his way to the altar'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Navigate

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verb
1. 
to plan, direct, or plot the path or position of (a ship, an aircraft, etc)
2. (transitive)
to travel over, through, or on (water, air, or land) in a boat, aircraft, etc
3. informal
to direct (oneself, one's way, etc) carefully or safely
he navigated his way to the bar
4. (intransitive)
(of a passenger in a motor vehicle) to give directions to the driver; point out the route
5. (intransitive) rare
to voyage in a ship; sail

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Navigate

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verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈnaviˌgated or ˈnaviˌgating
1. 
to steer, or direct, a ship or aircraft
2.  US, Informal
to make one's way; walk
3.  Rare
to travel by ship
verb transitive
4. 
to travel through or over (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft
5. 
to steer or direct (a ship or aircraft)
6. 
to plot the course for (a ship or aircraft)
7.  Informal
to walk or make one's way on or through

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Navigate

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v. nav·i·gat·ed, nav·i·gat·ing, nav·i·gates
v.intr.
1.
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?
2.
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.
v.tr.
1. To direct (a vessel or vehicle) over a planned course.
2.
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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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