navigate Definition

navigate
verb navigated, navigating

intr
1. To direct the course of a ship, aircraft or other vehicle.
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2. To find one's way and hold one's course.
3. To steer (a ship or aircraft).

Thesaurus: pilot, steer, direct, guide, sail, helm, manoeuvre, skipper, operate.
4a. To manage to sail along or through (a river or channel, etc);
4b. To find one's way through, along, over or across something, etc.
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5. Said of a vehicle passenger: to give the driver directions on the correct route.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin navigare, from navis ship.