navigate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)
- (transitive) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
- He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
- 2024 December 25, Elaine S. Povich, “Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into four crashes of Teslas operating with a partial-automation system (which can navigate highways and steer the car on city streets but requires a licensed driver to be present), including one in which a pedestrian was killed. In a news release, NHTSA said reduced visibility may have led to the crashes.
- (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
- You drive. I'll navigate.
- (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
- We navigated to France in the dinghy.
- (transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
- It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
- (transitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 11:
- 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.
- 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
- Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms.
Hyponyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]plan, control
travel over water
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move on the internet
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Further reading
[edit]- “navigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “navigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “navigate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Adverb
[edit]navigate
- present adverbial passive participle of navigi
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]navigate
- inflection of navigare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]navigate f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]nāvigāte
Participle
[edit]nāvigāte
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