Navigate

From Fresh Dictionary

English

Verb

to navigate (transitive and intransitive)

1. 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. to travel over water in a ship; to sail

   We navigated to France in the dinghy.

3. ((computing{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})) to move from page to page on the Internet by clicking on hyperlinks

   It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

Derived terms

• navigation
• navigator
• navigable

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