Navigate \Nav"i*gate\, v. t.
1. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate
the Atlantic.
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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.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the
Western Ocean. --Arbuthnot.
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2. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or
aircraft.
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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.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
navigate
v 1: 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"
WordNet (r) 2.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "navigate":
aeroplane, airlift, airplane, allocate, assign, balloon,
be airborne, boat, canoe, captain, carry sail, chart a course,
circumnavigate, coast, collocate, con, cond, conn, coxswain, cross,
cruise, deploy, direct, dispose, drift, emplace, ferry, fix, flit,
fly, get a fix, glide, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea,
guide, handle, have the conn, helm, home in on, hop, hover,
hydroplane, install, jet, journey, localize, locate,
make a passage, manage, motorboat, operate, pilot, pin down,
pinpoint, place, ply, position, put in place, row, run, sail,
sail round, sail the sea, sailplane, scull, seafare, seaplane,
shape a course, situate, skipper, soar, spot, steam, steamboat,
steer, take a voyage, take the air, take wing, traverse,
triangulate, volplane, voyage, wing, yacht, zero in on
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
pilot, sail, voyage
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