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{
"term": "navigate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "navigate",
"heSheIt": "navigates"
},
"pastSimple": "navigated",
"pastParticiple": "navigated",
"ingForm": "navigating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to plan and direct the course of ship, plane, car etc., for example by using a map",
"sensetop": "navigate through somethingnavigate your way…",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to navigate by the stars"
},
{
"text": "I'll drive, and you can navigate."
},
{
"text": "There's nothing worse than navigating through heavy traffic.",
"contextForm": "navigate through something"
},
{
"text": "How do you navigate your way through a forest?",
"contextForm": "navigate your way…"
},
{
"text": "Pigeons navigate less accurately when the earth's magnetic field is disturbed."
},
{
"text": "She became expert in driving and navigating across the desert."
},
{
"text": "These birds navigate by the sun."
},
{
"text": "learning to navigate your way through a forest"
},
{
"text": "Most planes now use computer technology to navigate."
},
{
"text": "Every day the ship carefully navigated through the channels of blue icebergs."
},
{
"text": "Ships used to be navigated by the stars."
}
],
"topics": [
"Transport by water",
"Transport by air",
"Transport by car or lorry"
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["safely", "carefully", "successfully"],
"preposition": ["by", "across", "through"],
"phrases": ["navigate your way"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to sail along, over or through a sea, river etc.",
"sensetop": "navigate something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The river became too narrow and shallow to navigate."
},
{
"text": "Only the best-trained captains could safely navigate these routes."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by water"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["safely", "carefully", "successfully"],
"preposition": ["by", "across", "through"],
"phrases": ["navigate your way"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to find the right way to deal with a difficult or complicated situation",
"sensetop": "navigate something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We next had to navigate a complex network of committees."
},
{
"text": "Those who successfully navigate this social minefield are accepted by the royal family."
},
{
"text": "She managed to successfully navigate the complex world of corporate finance."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["safely", "carefully", "successfully"],
"preposition": ["by", "across", "through"],
"phrases": ["navigate your way"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to find your way around on the internet or on a particular website",
"sensetop": "navigate (through) something",
"labels": "(computing)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Customers will be able to navigate easily throughout the site."
},
{
"text": "Lots of these sites are hard to navigate through.",
"contextForm": "navigate (through) something"
}
],
"topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["safely", "carefully", "successfully"],
"preposition": ["by", "across", "through"],
"phrases": ["navigate your way"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪt/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪts/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪt/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪts/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnævɪɡeɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "na/navigate/navigating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘travel in a ship’): from Latin navigat- ‘sailed’, from the verb navigare, from navis ‘ship’ + agere ‘drive’."
}