navigate

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English navigate < Latin navigo < Proto-Indo-European *nau- (boat), possibly < Tamil நாவாய் (nāvāi).

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to navigate

Third person singular
navigates

Simple past
navigated

Past participle
navigated

Present participle
navigating

to 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.
  2. (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
    We navigated to France in the dinghy.
  3. (intransitive, computing) To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
    It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

plan, control
travel over water
move on the internet

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Adverb

navigate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of navigi

[edit] Italian

[edit] Verb

navigate

  1. Second-person plural present tense of navigare.
  2. Second-person plural imperative of navigare.
  3. Feminine plural of navigato.

[edit] Anagrams

[edit] Latin

[edit] Participle

nāvigāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of nāvigātus
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/navigate"