Crossword clues for navigate
navigate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navigate \Nav"i*gate\, v. t.
To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.
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.
To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room.
Navigate \Nav"i*gate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Navigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Navigating.] [L. navigatus, p. p. of navigare, v.t. & i.; navis ship + agere to move, direct. See Nave, and Agent.]
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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.
The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean.
--Arbuthnot. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.
To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate around all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, a back-formation from navigation, or else from Latin navigatus, past participle of navigare. Extended to balloons (1784) and later to aircraft (1901). Related: Navigated; navigating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course. 2 (context intransitive English) To travel over water in a ship; to sail. 3 (context intransitive computing English) To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
WordNet
v. travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: voyage, sail]
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?" [syn: pilot]
direct carefully and safely; "He navigated his way to the altar"
Usage examples of "navigate".
Even though, at that moment, the adolescent may be trying to avoid dealing with these tricky emotional situations in-person, navigating these situations online can be a good way to practice skills that later will generalize to their face-to-face encounters.
The richness of our linguistic recall may be biologically no more mysterious than the capacity of a homing pigeon to navigate precisely over hundreds of kilometres or a dog to distinguish and remember thousands of different odours at almost infinitesimally low concentration.
At noon 6 January, when battleship New Mexico was bombarding the shore, she was crashed on the port wing of her navigating bridge by a Japanese plane already in flames.
Captain Breakstone longed to go to sea, and his dream was to command a transport-he was an amateur boat enthusiast, and he had navigated a destroyer briefly in World War I-but he was trapped by his excellent civilian record as a lawyer.
He is a bureaucrat, and his heroism is bureaucratic, with a genius for navigating cluttered fields.
With a pile of diet wafers and a snack bar balanced on a saucer in one hand, a pot of caff in the other, and a notebook under his arm, Procyon navigated the door of his basement home office, elbowed the switch, and let the robot turn the lights on.
There was Captain Dingbat, navigating the Sloop John B through New York Harbor and calling the Statue of Liberty a Hotsy-Totsy.
After nearly twenty years we move as one, but Dybbuk has to do all the navigating.
Portuguese who go to Guinea which is below the equinoctial line are able to navigate because they go along the coast.
The year was in its fall, according to a poetical expression of our own, and the morning bright, as the fairest and swiftest bark that navigated the Leman lay at the quay of the ancient and historical town of Geneva, ready to depart for the country of Vaud.
They would stay there until the atomic blasts went into action and it became clear that the Arisians would need no help in navigating those tremendous globes through Nth space to the points at which two hyper-spatial tubes were soon to appear.
They uttered sounds pitched above the range Rac ears could hear and used the echoes to navigate.
It was agreed that I should navigate the craft after we had reached her, and that if we made the outer world in safety we should attempt to reach Helium without a stop.
It was an infinite maze, but ultimately there was only one right path for each human who sought to navigate its twisting corridors.
Reb and Sulke between them had brought us former groundhogs to the point where we could not only stand to be in the dark in zero gee, but could navigate reliably in darkness.