1 to find your position or the position of your ship, plane, car etc. and the direction you need to go in, for example by using a map:
[V] to navigate by the stars * I'll drive, and you can navigate. * [VN] How do you navigate your way through a forest?
2 [VN] (written) to sail along, over or through a sea, river etc:
The river became too narrow and shallow to navigate.
3 [VN] to find the right way to deal with a difficult or complicated situation:
We next had to navigate a complex network of committees.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for navigate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is navigate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, navigate is tagged as verb.
Does navigate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — navigate appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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