navigates

Verb

navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)

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.
   • He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
2. (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
   • You drive. I'll navigate.
3. (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
   • We navigated to France in the dinghy.
4. (transitive) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
   • It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
5. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
   • 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...2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11