Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word NAVIGATE

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Definitions of NAVIGATE

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.
2. (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
3. (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
4. (transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
5. (transitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

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Examples of Using NAVIGATE in a Sentence

• A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port.
• Animal echolocation, non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate.
• A home page is the main web page that a visitor will view when they navigate to a website via a search engine, and it may also function as a landing page to attract visitors.
• The Kattegat is a rather shallow sea and can be very difficult and dangerous to navigate because of the many sandy and stony reefs and tricky currents, which often shift.
• For example, in a web browser, a user can navigate to the previously viewed page by pressing the right pointing device button, moving the pointing device briefly to the left, then releasing the button.
• Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed.
• Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
• Over time, the Marshallese people learned to navigate over long ocean distances by walap canoe using traditional stick charts.
• An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power.
• Hallways must be sufficiently wide to ensure buildings can be evacuated during a fire, and to allow people in wheelchairs to navigate them.
• Although dogs can be trained to navigate various obstacles, they are red–green colour blind and incapable of interpreting street signs.
• The series stars Hilary Duff as the titular character who learns to navigate the personal and social issues of her teenage years.
• The Argo (led by Jason) was the only ship to navigate them successfully (with divine help from Hera, Thetis, and the Nereids).
• The first versions of iCab were criticized for not supporting CSS and DOM, but were given praise for making it easier to navigate to links listed on pages.
• The much larger ships that could navigate the Kiel Canal meant that, although situated inland, Rendsburg became a seaport and a dockyard.
• Lassen's initial attempt to navigate to his ranch in 1849 had failed but the following year a riverboat managed to make the arduous 125-mile journey from Sacramento in 5 months before ultimately being sunk.
• Angola was a rather large maroon settlement as the Manatee River at that time was too shallow for US Navy vessels to navigate.
• Johnston, and John Hanks were hired by Denton Offutt to build a flatboat and navigate it from Beardstown, Illinois, down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.
• During the North Sea Flood of 1953, a dike along that river broke, and the mayor of Nieuwerkerk successfully managed to plug the hole by ordering shipper Arie Evegroen to navigate his grain barge Twee Gebroeders (Two Brothers) into it.
• The new circle operates as a roundabout with two concentric lanes and many arrows to help drivers navigate the circle.
• The Schuylkill Canal was built to help navigate past rapids on the Schuylkill River between Norristown and Pottstown.
• The objective is to navigate the player's character through the dream world Subcon and defeat the main antagonist Wart.
• Although often built with standard-sized doors, a narrow-gauge train is in most other respects smaller than its standard-gauge counterpart: its cars are generally narrower and shorter, allowing them to navigate more sharply curved and lightly built tracks.
• He was trained as a seaman in ships in the Delaware River, then considered the best 'school' for seamanship because of the great skill required to navigate that river.
• In contrast, modern screen based editors allow the user to interactively and directly navigate, select, and modify portions of the document.

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