navigate
To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
Example
“He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.”
Other meanings
To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
“You drive. I'll navigate.”
To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
“We navigated to France in the dinghy.”
Synonyms
- voyage
- sail
Related words
- astrogate
- misnavigate
- navigatable
- neuronavigate
- renavigate
- unnavigated
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "nāvigātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “navigate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.