navigate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   direct carefully and safely

   We navigated our way to the beach.

2. 2
   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?

3. 3
   verb

   To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.

   He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.

4. 4
   verb

   To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.

   You drive. I'll navigate.

5. 5
   verb

   To travel over water in a ship; to sail.

   We navigated to France in the dinghy.

6. 6
   verb

   To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.

   It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

7. 7
   verb

   To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

   However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.

8. 8
   verb

   travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

Etymology

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”).