English Online Dictionary. What means navigate? What does navigate mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, enPR: năv′-ĭ-gāt
Verb
navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
- You drive. I'll navigate.
- (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
- We navigated to France in the dinghy.
- (transitive, computing) 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.
- (transitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
Hyponyms
- circumnavigate
Derived terms
- navigation
- navigator
- navigable
Related terms
- naval
- navy
Translations
Further reading
- “navigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “navigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “navigate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- vaginate
Esperanto
Adverb
navigate
- present adverbial passive participle of navigi
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
navigate
- inflection of navigare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
navigate f pl
- feminine plural of navigato
Anagrams
- agentiva, negativa, vengiata
Latin
Verb
nāvigāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of nāvigō
Participle
nāvigāte
- vocative masculine singular of nāvigātus