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navigate

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, enPR: năv′-ĭ-gāt
  • Audio (US):(file)

Verb

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navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)

  1. (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.
    • 2024 December 25, Elaine S. Povich, “Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1]:
      Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into four crashes of Teslas operating with a partial-automation system (which can navigate highways and steer the car on city streets but requires a licensed driver to be present), including one in which a pedestrian was killed. In a news release, NHTSA said reduced visibility may have led to the crashes.
  2. (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
    You drive. I'll navigate.
  3. (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
    We navigated to France in the dinghy.
  4. (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.
  5. (transitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
      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.
    • 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
      Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms.

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Esperanto

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Adverb

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navigate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of navigi

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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navigate

  1. inflection of navigare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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navigate f pl

  1. feminine plural of navigato

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Latin

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Verb

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nāvigāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of nāvigō

Participle

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nāvigāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of nāvigātus
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