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Navigate

//ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. transitive

    "He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr."

  2. 2
    travel on water propelled by wind or by other means wordnet
  3. 3
    To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle. intransitive

    "You drive. I'll navigate."

  4. 4
    direct carefully and safely wordnet
  5. 5
    To travel over water in a ship; to sail. intransitive

    "We navigated to France in the dinghy."

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  1. 6
    act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance wordnet
  2. 7
    To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism. transitive

    "It was difficult to navigate back to the home page."

  3. 8
    To find a way through a difficult situation or process. ambitransitive, figuratively

    "However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance."

Etymology

First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

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