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Navigate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.

verb-intransitive. To control the course of a ship or aircraft.

verb-intransitive. To voyage over water in a boat or ship; sail.

verb-intransitive. To make one's way: navigated with difficulty through the crowd.

verb-intransitive. Informal To walk: He was too unsteady on his legs to navigate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

v. To travel over water in a ship; to sail.

v. To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. 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.

verb-intransitive. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.

verb-intransitive. 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.

The 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"I use the word "navigate" because I tend to think of the chemical world as an unfinished map."

Verb Form

navigated navigates navigating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

direct guide point manoeuver channelise

Cross Reference

steer manage

Form

navigated navigating navigator navigation navigable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sail