navigate.
To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
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.
To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
Where this word comes from
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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