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- pronunciation:
- nae
vih
geIt
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
navigates, navigating, navigated |
| definition 1: |
to plan, manage, or control the course of (a ship, aircraft, or the like).
The captain managed to navigate the ship through the storm.- similar words:
- sail
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| definition 2: |
to go across, along, or through; traverse, as by ship or aircraft.
Explorers took great risks in order to navigate the globe.- similar words:
- sail
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| definition 3: |
to find one's way around in or make one's way through.
Their website is not very easy to navigate.The elderly man couldn't navigate the busy intersection by himself. |
| definition 4: |
find (one's way) to a desire location.
It was challenging for the explorers to navigate their way back to the cave's entrance. |
| related words: |
channel, guide, maneuver, pilot, steer, voyage |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to plan, manage, or control the course of a ship, aircraft, or missile.
The captain had turned off the automatic pilot and was navigating manually. |
| definition 2: |
to make one's way; find the correct path to a destination or goal.
In the dark, it was difficult to navigate to where the candles were kept.It's amazing how these bicyclists navigate through the city traffic.I had some trouble navigating through the website. |
| definition 3: |
(informal) to walk.
They were too drunk to navigate. |
| related words: |
sail |
adverb + (v.)navigate
deftly, easily, easy, safely, skillfully, successfully
(v.)navigate
+ adverb
around, carefully, effectively, through, upstream
(v.)navigate
+ noun
adolescence,
airplane,
aisle,
arrow,
boat,
bureaucracy,
canal,
canoe,
challenge,
channel,
compass,
complexity,
corridor,
course,
crowd,
current,
curve,
dark,
darkness,
database,
dirt,
ease,
fog,
folder,
foot,
grocery,
hallway,
journey,
labyrinth,
landmark,
landscape,
maze,
menu,
mile,
minefield,
net,
obstacle,
passage,
path,
pile,
rapid,
reckoning,
river,
road,
route,
satellite,
screen,
sea,
ship,
sidewalk,
site,
stair,
strait,
stream,
stretch,
system,
terrain,
territory,
tide,
traffic,
voyage,
water,
waterway,
web,
wheelchair
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The word navigate
contains the following parts:
nav
Latin
root
that means ship
  Example words:
- synonyms:
- naut
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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