Word Finder - navigate

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To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.

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He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.

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To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.

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You drive. I'll navigate.

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To travel over water in a ship; to sail.

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We navigated to France in the dinghy.

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To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.

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It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

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To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

She couldn't navigate through the emotions.

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Small sailing craft navigate upwards as far as Samarra; above this all navigation is downward, and by raft.

Several attempts were also made to navigate the sea from the Lena to the Kolyma.

The first to navigate the sea in modern times was an Irish traveller, Costigan by name, in August and September 1835.

Large steamers navigate up to Galatz and Braila.

Sea-going vessels can navigate up to Blaydon, and collieries and large manufacturing towns line the banks - Newburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wallsend and North Shields on the Northumberland side; Gateshead, Jarrow and South Shields on the Durham side, with many lesser centres, forming continuous lines of factories and shipbuilding yards.

Above Bagdad there are no steamers on the Tigris, but sailing vessels of 30 tons and more navigate the river to Samarra and beyond.

Shallowdraught steamers navigate the lake and river, and Lesser Slave lake and river, with one interruption - at Grand Rapids near the mouth of the Clearwater river.

The improvement of the Missouriwhich is far more difficult to navigate than the Mississippi-was begun by Congress in 1832, and (in addition to large joint appropriations for the Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Ohio rivers from 1832 to 1882) cost $11,130,560 between 1876 and 1900.

Sickness and discontent led to a mutiny on De Quiros' vessel, and the crew, overpowering their officers during the night, forced the captain to navigate his ship to Mexico.

The Porte, unable to resist, was obliged to consent to the convention of Ainali Ka y ak (March 10, 1779) whereby the Russian partisan, Shahin Girai, was recognized as khan of the Crimea, the admission of Russian vessels to navigate Turkish waters was reaffirmed and Russia's right of intervention in the affairs of the Danubian principalities was formally recognized.

Since that time, a British gunboat has been stationed before the residency, and British steamers have been allowed to navigate the river.

The largest timber tree is the mvule, which attains vast dimensions, its trunk supplying the natives with the dug-out canoes with which they navigate the lake.

Weight and power are always associated in living animals, and the fact that living animals are made heavier than the medium they are to navigate may be regarded as a conclusive argument in favour of weight being necessary alike to the swimming of the fish and the flying of the bird.

The largest craft can always, enter and navigate the bay, and there are ample facilities of dry and floating docks.

It's pretty easy to navigate after a few decades of trying.

Though the discord resulting between the states on account of this failure was subsequently allayed for a time by a treaty granting to Brazil the right to navigate the river, every obstacle was thrown in the way by the Paraguayan government, and indignities of all kinds were offered not only to Brazil but to the representatives of the Argentine and the United States.

Two or three flat-bottomed sailing vessels navigate the lake of Urmia in north-western Persia, carrying merchandise, principally agricultural produce, from the western and south-western shores to the eastern for the supply of Tabriz.

The treaties lately concluded by the shogun with the foreign powers conceded the right to navigate the strait of Shimonoseki, leading to the Inland Sea.

All vessels using the Crinan Canal navigate the loch to and from Ardrishaig, and there are daily excursions during the season, as far up as Inveraray.

He has difficulties walking and wears infant diapers since he is unable to navigate the litter box.

In 1850 James Richardson, accompanied by Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg, reached the lake, also via Tripoli, and Overweg was the first European to navigate its waters (1851).

Small steamers also navigate the lower Cauca and Nechi rivers, and a limited service is maintained on the upper Cauca.

Its northern and southern extremities have been named Cape Costigan and Cape Molyneux, in memory of two explorers who were among the first in modern times to navigate the sea and succumbed to the consequent fever and exhaustion.

Really easy to navigate sections on all aspects of non-fiction writing.

Use your superhuman powers to navigate your way through the obstacle course.

Which star constellations can be used to navigate by?

The crystals may also help the hornets to navigate in the dark chambers.

You never know when you might have to tip the buggy slightly to navigate the terrain or bounce down a few steps.

These will be waters to navigate carefully, in order to make sure that the right to privacy, a cornerstone of a free society, is not destroyed.

Birds navigate by the stars and undertake voyages as a yearly pilgrimage which would unnerve all but the stoutest of human hearts.

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This attorney will help you to navigate the legal system in civil court where you will sue the manufacturer, not the dealership that sold you the car.

The site is easy to navigate as it is laid out similar to a blog.

It is in a parent's best interest to obtain a competent and experienced attorney in order to navigate the entire process of trying to obtain custody.

If dealing with peer pressure was easy, it wouldn't be such a difficult issue to navigate.

The environment is both kid-friendly and easy to navigate.

The course system is very easy to navigate.

The beauty of the iPhone when it comes to being online is the touch screen that makes it incredibly easy to navigate.

Andre had been his confidante and mentor whose guidance had helped him navigate his role as the Immortals. leader.

Large galleys could not anchor in the bay of Zengg, which is shallow and exposed to sudden gales, so the Uskoks fitted out a fleet of swift boats, light enough to navigate the smallest creeks and inlets of the Illyrian shore, and easily sunk and recovered, if a temporary landing became necessary.

This was rendered at 5 frames per second, which would enable a clinician to interactively navigate the virtual colon on a desktop PC.

Plus, Web pages are full of prompts to help users navigate the site, adding to the visual clutter.

Sadly, it's a little disorganized, difficult to navigate and achingly slow.

Visualization provide an easy-to-use graphical front-end for doctors to analyze images easily without having to navigate around large amounts of computer language.

The touch sensitive screen makes it extremely easy to get started and navigate through the databases and it is also able to recognize handwriting.

Many an hour can be spent outside the local hostelry watching these boats navigate the locks.

The handsome radiator cap mascot provides an excellent sighting device as you navigate this great leviathan of an MG.

To navigate the maze you need a special suit that protects you from the attacks of the resident monsters.