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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
navigate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
navigate a river (=to travel along a river )
▪ The narrow cliffs once made the river dangerous to navigate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
waters
▪ Alvin was learning how to navigate the tricky waters of dance funding.
▪ The king of diamonds would navigate us through difficult waters.
▪ Dole navigates the treacherous waters of the budget standoff.
way
▪ And that's only one way to navigate.
▪ It provides a simple way to navigate the vast troves of information stored online.
▪ Surf the code Delphi 4 has a number of fast ways of navigating your way quickly through your source code.
▪ Whatever some observers regarded as a blundering approach was a skilful way of navigating the dilemmas confronting him.
■ VERB
help
▪ I will return with the birchbark scroll, if I can, to help them navigate to where they belong.
▪ The company makes software to help navigate the World Wide Web.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Americans may also have to navigate major changes in the housing market.
▪ As a cadet, you'll have to navigate through the academy's internal politics.
▪ I don't mind driving but I'd like you to navigate.
▪ Some birds fly at night and navigate by the stars.
▪ The Elbe River is not as easy to navigate as the Rhine.
▪ This time I'll drive and you navigate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He demonstrated, for example, how to navigate your way over an obstacle like a gate, without disturbing the bird.
▪ He is navigating a transport ship coming in to land on Mars.
▪ In times past we Rabari navigated entirely by the stars.
▪ Once again, you navigate dark passageways and hostile environments, killing everything that moves.
▪ The eldritch gulls, who navigate with their far-flung friends the rowdy sea-air above London, complicated the dream.
▪ They navigate by the stars and by the lie of the land.
▪ Those lower down lack both the material and social resources which those higher up can employ to navigate a flexible labour market.
▪ Web Rep is part of a growing breed of companies trying to navigate the unfolding world of interactive advertising.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navigate

Navigate \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.

  3. 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

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.

  3. 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
navigate

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
navigate

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
navigate
  1. v. travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: voyage, sail]

  2. 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]

  3. 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.