Navigate

v. i.	1.	To journey by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. [imp. & p. p. Navigated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Navigating.] The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. - Arbuthnot.
	2.	To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.
	3.	To pass through, over, or around; - used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate around all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room.
v. t.	1.	To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.
	2.	To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.
	3.	To pass through, over, or around; - used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room.

Verb	1.	navigate - travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" Synonyms: voyage, sail
	2.	navigate - act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance; "Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?"; "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?" Synonyms: pilot
	3.	navigate - direct carefully and safely; "He navigated his way to the altar"

aeroplane, airlift, airplane, allocate, assign, balloon, be airborne, boat, canoe, captain, carry sail, chart a course, circumnavigate, coast, collocate, con, cond, conn, coxswain, cross, cruise, deploy, direct, dispose, drift, emplace, ferry, fix, flit, fly, get a fix, glide, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, guide, handle, have the conn, helm, home in on, hop, hover, hydroplane, install, jet, journey, localize, locate, make a passage, manage, motorboat, operate, pilot, pin down, pinpoint, place, ply, position, put in place, row, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sailplane, scull, seafare, seaplane, shape a course, situate, skipper, soar, spot, steam, steamboat, steer, take a voyage, take the air, take wing, traverse, triangulate, volplane, voyage, wing, yacht, zero in on

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