- 1[intransitive, transitive] to find your position or the position of your ship, plane, car etc. and the direction you need to go in, for example by using a map to navigate by the stars I'll drive, and you can navigate. navigate your way… How do you navigate your way through a forest? Wordfindermapcompass, globe, GPS, grid, key, latitude, map, navigate, reference, scale Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbsafely, carefully, successfully, … prepositionby, across, through, … phrasesnavigate your way See full entry See related entries: Plane travel, Driving, Travelling by boat or ship
- 2[transitive] navigate something to sail along, over or through a sea, river etc. The river became too narrow and shallow to navigate. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbsafely, carefully, successfully, … prepositionby, across, through, … phrasesnavigate your way See full entry See related entries: Rivers and lakes, Coastlines and the sea, Travelling by boat or ship
- 3[transitive] navigate something to find the right way to deal with a difficult or complicated situation We next had to navigate a complex network of committees. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbsafely, carefully, successfully, … prepositionby, across, through, … phrasesnavigate your way See full entry
- 4[intransitive, transitive] navigate (something) (computing) to find your way around on the Internet or on a particular website Wordfinderwebaccess, blog, browse, chat, google, navigate, search engine, unsubscribe, visit, the Web Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbsafely, carefully, successfully, … prepositionby, across, through, … phrasesnavigate your way See full entry See related entries: Using the Internet Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘travel in a ship’): from Latin navigat- ‘sailed’, from the verb navigare, from navis ‘ship’ + agere ‘drive’.Extra examples Customers will be able to navigate easily throughout the site. Every day the ship carefully navigated through the channels of blue icebergs. Only the best-trained captains could safely navigate these routes. Pigeons navigate less accurately when the earth’s magnetic field is disturbed. She became expert in driving and navigating across the desert. She managed to successfully navigate the complex world of corporate finance. These birds navigate by the sun. Those who successfully navigate this social minefield are accepted by the royal family. learning to navigate your way through a forest I’ll drive and you can navigate. Most planes now use computer technology to navigate. Ships used to be navigated by the stars.
navigate
verbBrE BrE//ˈnævɪɡeɪt// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈnævɪɡeɪt//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they navigate BrE BrE//ˈnævɪɡeɪt// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈnævɪɡeɪt//
he / she / it navigates BrE BrE//ˈnævɪɡeɪts// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈnævɪɡeɪts//
past simple navigated BrE BrE//ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd//
past participle navigated BrE BrE//ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd//
-ing form navigating BrE BrE//ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪŋ// ; NAmE NAmE//ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪŋ//
Rivers and lakes, Coastlines and the sea, Plane travel, Using the Internet, Driving, Travelling by boat or shipCheck pronunciation: navigate
