navigate [ nav·i·gate ]
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1. Plan and direct the course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transport, especially by using instruments or maps.
With the chart, we are navigating by the stars.
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2. Travel on a desired course after planning a route.
More route choices were given to teams to navigate to the checkpoints.
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3. (of an animal) find its way.
Other animals are also thought to navigate using magnetite.
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4. (of a passenger in a vehicle) assist the driver by planning a route and map reading.
Patrick was steering the boat while Becky navigated.
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5. Move around a website, the internet, etc.
This is the software you use to navigate the Internet.
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6. (of a ship or boat) sail; proceed.
we sailed out while navigating around large icebergs
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7. Sail or travel over (a stretch of water or terrain), especially carefully or with difficulty.
ships had been lost while navigating the narrows
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8. Guide (a vessel or vehicle) over a specified route or terrain.
she navigated the car safely through the traffic
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9. Guide or steer (someone)
Ted was navigating her towards the other end of the room
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Origin
1. Late 16th century (in the sense ‘travel in a ship’): from Latin navigat- ‘sailed’, from the verb navigare, from navis ‘ship’ + agere ‘drive’.

