5. to walk or to find one's way on, in, or across: to navigate the stairs. NAVIGATE meaning: 1. to direct the way that a ship, aircraft, etc. will travel, or to find a direction across, along.. The meaning of NAVIGATE is to travel by water : sail. How to use navigate in a sentence.

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There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb navigate, one of which is labelled obsolete. See β€˜Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. When fish, animals, or insects navigate somewhere, they find the right direction to go and travel there. In tests, the bees navigate back home after being placed in a field a mile away. to walk or find one's way on, in, or across: [~ + object] It was hard to navigate the stairs in the dark. [no object] Do you think you can navigate through the downtown area safely?

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