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say it: NAV-uh-gayt
navigate is a verb meaning "travel on water propelled by wind or by other means". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for navigate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.