navigate
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From Middle English navigate < Latin navigo < Proto-Indo-European *nau- (boat), possibly < Tamil நாவாய் (nāvāi).
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to navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
- We navigated to France in the dinghy.
- (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.
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travel over water
move on the internet
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navigate
- present adverbial passive participle of navigi
[edit] Italian
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navigate
- Second-person plural present tense of navigare.
- Second-person plural imperative of navigare.
- Feminine plural of navigato.
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nāvigāte
- vocative masculine singular of nāvigātus