navigate

Meanings

1. To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
2. To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
3. To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
4. To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
5. To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

Etymology

First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).