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Definition of "navigate" []

  • To plan, record, and control the course and position of (a ship or aircraft). (verb-transitive)
  • To follow a planned course on, across, or through: navigate a stream. (verb-transitive)
  • To control the course of a ship or aircraft. (verb-intransitive)
  • To voyage over water in a boat or ship; sail. (verb-intransitive)
  • To make one's way: navigated with difficulty through the crowd. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "navigate" in a sentence
  • "I use the word "navigate" because I tend to think of the chemical world as an unfinished map."
  • "Now if only there were an easy way to navigate from the page the RSS takes me to, directly to the comic."
  • "But inability to navigate is as incomprehensible to me as colorblindness, or discalculia."