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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

... that great hall may be I don't know, but I venture to guess that it seats four thousand people—not huddled together, as a theatre seats them, but comfortably, loosely, spaciously, with plenty of room between the tables for the 250 kellnerinen to navigate safely with their cargoes of Loewenbraeu. Four nights a week a military band plays in this hall or a maennerchor rowels the air with song, and there is an admission fee of thirty pfennigs (7-1/5 cents). One night ...

— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

... commanders soon appeared. Albuquerque's own pilot had fled to Castile, after murdering his wife, and, since Tristao da Cunha refused to give him another pilot, the future Governor of Portuguese India had to navigate his own vessel. But the difference between them was not due alone to this personal dispute—the two men were of essentially different temperaments. Tristao da Cunha was before all things an explorer; his hope was to discover ...

— Rulers of India: Albuquerque • Henry Morse Stephens

... timber on the middle fork, seven miles distant, and wait his return. He then went along the north side of the rapid river about four miles, where he waded it, and found it so rapid and shallow that it would be impossible to navigate it. He continued along the left side for a mile and a half, when the mountains came close on the river, and rise to a considerable height with a partial covering of snow. From this place the course of the river ...

— History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

... houses, capturing any of their vessels they may meet on those seas, and treating their crews as enemies and even pirates. For they call by that opprobrious name all of any nation, themselves alone excepted, who dare to navigate those waters. Nor do they profess to have any other or better right for this than reliance on some ridiculous donation of the Pope, and the fact that they were the first discoverers of some parts of that western region ... Certainly it would have been disgraceful and unworthy in us, in possession ...

— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson

... the first channel and come out on a flat where 'twasn't more'n two foot deep then. I commenced to feel better. There was another channel ahead of us, but I figured we'd navigate that same as we had the first one. And then the most outrageous ...

— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln

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