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to navigate
01
to travel across or on an area of water by a ship or boat
Intransitive: to navigate somewhere
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
navigate
3rd person singular
navigates
Present participle
navigating
Past simple
navigated
Past participle
navigated
Examples
The cruise ship successfully navigated through the narrow channels of the fjord.
02
to choose the direction of and guide a vehicle, ship, etc., especially by using a map
Intransitive
Examples
She helped the driver navigate by providing turn-by-turn directions.
03
to move through a challenging area with careful consideration of obstacles
Transitive: to navigate an area
Examples
Explorers had to navigate the icy waters of the Arctic, carefully avoiding icebergs and frozen obstacles.
04
(computing) to move from one website to another or find one's way around on a website
Transitive: to navigate an online platform
Examples
Students were taught how to navigate the educational platform to access course materials.
Lexical Tree
navigation
navigator
navigate
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