navigate

1. (transitive) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.Examples: "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."transitive

2. (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.Examples: "You drive. I'll navigate."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.Examples: "We navigated to France in the dinghy."intransitive

4. (transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.Examples: "It was difficult to navigate back to the home page."transitive

5. (ambitransitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.Examples: "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."ambitransitivefiguratively