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verb

Navigate v. t.

To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.

To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.

To pass through, over, or around; used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room.

Navigate v. i. (past & past part. navigated; pres. part. navigating)

To journey by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. "The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean."

To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.

To pass through, over, or around; used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate around all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room.

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Etymology of 'Navigate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Navigate" Quotes from Famous Books

... brains of the good people of our globe—let us suppose, I say, that the inhabitants of the moon, by these means, had arrived at such a command of their energies, such an enviable state of perfectibility, as to control the elements, and navigate the boundless regions of space. Let us suppose a roving crew of these soaring philosophers, in the course of an aerial voyage of discovery among the stars, should chance to alight upon this outlandish planet. And here I ...

— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving

... musket balls for possible emergencies. The Kooskooskee, it should be borne in mind, is now better known as the Clearwater; it empties into the Snake River, and that into the Columbia. As far as the explorers knew the water-course down which they were to navigate, they called it Clark's River, in honor of Captain Clark. But modern geographers have displaced the name of that eminent explorer and map-maker and have divided the stream, or streams, with ...

— First Across the Continent • Noah Brooks

... to navigate the water she was driven by the same aerial propellers that afforded her motive power on land or in the air. She then became what may be called a hydromobile. If it chanced to be rough weather, special hermetically sealed panels ...

— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner

... her to navigate on land, as her legs were incased in a fish's tail, but, seizing her comb and mirror, she managed to wriggle down to ...

— The Green Mouse • Robert W. Chambers

... cause for gratitude in my own case as in yours. Please present my compliments to the ladies, and express my hope that they suffered no ill effects from their hasty exchange of boats. I trust that the stupid boatman, who was to blame for your disaster, will not attempt to navigate anything more complicated than a wheelbarrow hereafter. I regret to say that my father is still very ill, and that his physician enjoins the utmost care and quiet until he recovers from his nervous shock. With much ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

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