navigate

English

Etymology

From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, enPR: năv′-ĭ-gāt

• Audio (US)

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Verb

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 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.

Hyponyms

• circumnavigate

Derived terms

• navigation
• navigator
• navigable

Related terms

• naval
• navy

Translations

plan, control

• Dutch: navigeren (nl)
• Finnish: ohjata (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: נִוֵּט (he) (nivvét)
• Latin: gubernō

travel over water

• Afrikaans: navigeer
• Catalan: navegar (ca)
• Dutch: varen (nl), navigeren (nl)
• Finnish: purjehtia (fi), navigoida (fi)
• French: naviguer (fr)
• Hebrew: נִוֵּט (he) m (nivet)
• Latin: navigare
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whakatere
• Norwegian: navigere
• Portuguese: navegar (pt)
• Spanish: navegar (es)
• Swedish: navigera (sv)
• Welsh: hwylio (cy)

move on the internet

• Afrikaans: navigeer
• Catalan: navegar (ca)
• Dutch: navigeren (nl), surfen (nl)
• Finnish: siirtyä (fi), navigoida (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: naviguer (fr)
• Portuguese: navegar (pt)
• Spanish: navegar (es)
• Swedish: surfa (sv), navigera (sv)

Further reading

• “navigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “navigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “navigate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• vaginate

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Esperanto

Adverb

navigate

1. present adverbial passive participle of navigi

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Italian

Verb

navigate

1. second-person plural present indicative of navigare
2. second-person plural imperative of navigare
3. feminine plural of navigato

Anagrams

• negativa

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) nāvigāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of nāvigō

Participle

(deprecated template usage) nāvigāte

1. vocative masculine singular of nāvigātus