navigateverb/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/

• 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.
  • Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into four crashes of Teslas operating with a partial-automation system (which can navigate highways and steer the car on city streets but requires a licensed driver to be present), including one in which a pedestrian was killed. In a news release, NHTSA said reduced visibility may have led to the crashes.
• 2

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

  • You drive. I'll navigate.
• 3

  To travel over water in a ship; to sail.

  • We navigated to France in the dinghy.
• 4

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

  • It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
• 5

  To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

  • However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.
  • Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms.