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What (who) is Navigate - definition
PROCESS OF MONITORING AND DIRECTING THE MOVEMENT OF A PERSON, CRAFT OR VEHICLE FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
Sailing navigation; SAILING NAVIGATION MODERN/OLD; Navigational; Navigate; Estimated position; House Navigation System; Navegation; Integrated bridge system; Land navigation (civil); Navigation instruments
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navigate
(navigates, navigating, navigated)
1.
When someone navigates a ship or an aircraft somewhere, they decide which course to follow and steer it there. You can also say that a ship or an aircraft navigates somewhere.
Captain Cook safely navigated his ship without accident for 100 voyages...
The purpose of the visit was to navigate into an ice-filled fiord.
...the new navigation system which will enable aircraft to navigate with total pinpoint accuracy.
VERB: V n, V prep/adv, V
• navigation (navigations)
The expedition was wrecked by bad planning and poor navigation.
...the boat's navigation system.
N-VAR
2.
When a ship or boat navigates an area of water, it sails on or across it.
...a lock system to allow sea-going craft to navigate the upper reaches of the river...
Such boats can navigate on the Nile.
= sail
VERB: V n, V prep
3.
When someone in a car navigates, they decide what roads the car should be driven along in order to get somewhere.
When travelling on fast roads at night it is impossible to drive and navigate at the same time.
...the relief at successfully navigating across the Golden Gate Bridge to arrive here...
They had just navigated their way through Maidstone on their way to the coast.
VERB: V, V prep/adv, V way prep, also V n
4.
When fish, animals, or insects navigate somewhere, they find the right direction to go and travel there.
In tests, the bees navigate back home after being placed in a field a mile away.
VERB: V adv/prep, also V
5.
If you navigate an obstacle, you move carefully in order to avoid hitting the obstacle or hurting yourself.
He was not able to walk without a cane and could only navigate steps backwards...
In the corridors he let her navigate her own way round the trolleys and other obstacles...
If guests wished to use the sofa, they had first to navigate around chairs in the middle of the room.
= negotiate
VERB: V n, V way prep, V prep/adv
navigate
I. v. n.
Sail, cruise, course, go in a vessel, plough the waves, plough the deep.
II. v. a.
1.
Sail over, sail on, pass in a vessel.
2.
Steer, direct (in sailing), guide the course of.
navigate
¦ verb
1. plan and direct the route or course of a ship, aircraft, etc., especially by using instruments or maps.
2. sail or travel over (a stretch of water or terrain).
guide (a vessel or vehicle) over a specified route or terrain.
3. Computing move around a website, the Internet, etc.
Origin
C16: from L. navigat-, navigare 'to sail'.
Wikipedia
Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation.
It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks. All navigational techniques involve locating the navigator's position compared to known locations or patterns.
Navigation, in a broader sense, can refer to any skill or study that involves the determination of position and direction. In this sense, navigation includes orienteering and pedestrian navigation.
Examples of use of Navigate
1. Good devices have menus that are easy to navigate.
2. If the police couldn‘t navigate the streets, who could?
3. American Jews taught me that we cannot navigate around philanthropy.
4. The MPC must navigate through a host of conflicting signals.
5. Camp residents navigate the monotony with conversation, backgammon and cards.