'Navigate' definitions:
Definition of 'navigate'
From: WordNet
verb
Travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: voyage, sail, navigate]
verb
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: navigate, pilot]
verb
Direct carefully and safely; "He navigated his way to the altar"
Definition of 'Navigate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft. [PJC]
- 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]
Definition of 'Navigate'
From: GCIDE
- Navigate \Nav"i*gate\, v. t.
- 1. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'navigate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Navigate'
- Navigability,
- Navigable,
- Navigableness,
- Navigably,
- Navigated,
- Navigating,
- Navigation,
- Navigator,
- navigational,
- Aerial navigation,
- Inland navigation,
- Internal navigation,
- celestial navigation,
- inertial navigation,
- navigation light,
- navigational chart,
- navigational instrument,
- navigational system,
- inertial navigation system,
- Slack-water navigation