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to nav

to nav

7.5
To use a device or app to find a route
  • verb
  • /næv/
  • Informal
translation icon : navegar
  • While hiking, she used her phone to navigate through the unfamiliar trails.

So as much as I try to help navigate her, she's going to be her own person.

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Examples

  • Siri, Navigate to Jo Ann Fabrics now.

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  • But now we should be able to navigate to it at the new address that I've set for it.

  • So how we can navigate to that and get those views?

  • So we can drive at night through and see and navigate with our cameras.

  • So this country's been a little bit more difficult to navigate than I thought.

  • And please navigate to the website www.menti.com.

  • One of our application actually navigates you to three nearby mosques.

  • Once the system's booted up, navigate to HTTP tower in the Internet browser of another computer on the same network.

  • To avoid traffic, please navigate the route using a GPS app.

  • He showed me how to navigate the new software to find the files I needed.

Synonyms

to navigate
vsto nav
38 3.8

Plan and control the route of a vehicle like a ship or plane

focuses on finding your way using technology rather than vehicle routing

How Accurate

to pinpoint
123 4.0
to locate
533 2.7
to nav
  • Informal
7.5
to find
∞ 1.0
search
∞ 1.0
guess
768 1.0

Surface Forms

nav infinitive
navigated past
navigated past participle
navigating present participle
navs third person singular

Etymology

The verb nav comes from navigate, which has the root nav- meaning 'ship' and is also in navy. To 'nav' with GPS or a map is to find or follow a route, keeping the old idea of steering a way forward.