navigate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To find the right way to get to a place, especially using a map or instruments.

   You drive and I'll navigate.

2. 2
   verb

   To find your way around a website, menu, or computer program.

   The new app is easy to navigate.

3. 3
   verb

   To deal successfully with a difficult or complicated situation.

   It can be hard to navigate the rules for getting a visa.

4. 4
   verb

   To sail or steer a boat, ship, or aircraft along a planned route.

   They navigated the small boat across the channel.

First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

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