(v. i.) To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
(v. t.) To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.
(v. t.) To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(2) An error and covariances analysis shows that the method is robust and accurate enough for autonomous navigation.
(3) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(4) Since the introduction of universal credit we’ve made sure staff know how to support customers navigating the new claim system.
(5) It is clear that different subsets of navigational cues guide sensory afferents to muscle and to cutaneous destinations.
(6) But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.
(7) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(8) Further, the results identify the hippocampus as a structure critical for the regulation of navigational behavior that manifests itself in a natural setting.
(9) Right parietal lesions resulted in deficits in both tasks, but especially landmark navigation.
(10) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(11) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(12) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(13) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
(14) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.
(15) We are considering how to demonstrate freedom of navigation in an area that is critical to world trade,” a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
(16) Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that navigating axons may respond to multiple guidance cues during development.
(17) Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for Kushner, he will have to navigate a US anti-nepotism law that states a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment … any individual who is a relative of the public official”.
(18) But I also know, from my own family’s navigation of a shocking event, that there can be the inverse response as well.
(19) The rats also showed good acquisition of escape response in a water maze task carried out 13 weeks after ischemia, but showed slight impairment of spatial navigation in the transfer test.
(20) This mode of navigation can be modeled as an input control process that selectively retains favorable and rejects unfavorable consequences of the random responses.
Wheelhouse
Definition:
(n.) A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
(n.) A paddle box. See under Paddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.17am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, bottom of 1st Lance Lynn pus a 1-0 fastball right in the wheelhouse but Carl Crawford can only lift it to center field - John Jay is waiting, and has it, which, by the way is no longer a foregone conclusion following his dismal performance last night.
(2) Sergeant Mark Leader and Captain Jody Wheelhouse assaulted Mohammad Ekhlas, 48, with a boot.
(3) He fears it will lead to deteriorating services in rural areas Paul Wheelhouse MSP (@PaulWheelhouse) Yet to meet any constituent who thinks it's in interest of rural communities for Royal Mail to be privatised -Tories & Lib Dems will rue day September 12, 2013 8.30am BST It's all the European Union's fault, according to UKIP's Nigel Farage : Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) Royal Mail privatisation is a direct result of EU directives.
(4) Paul Wheelhouse, Scotland’s energy minister, said: “Our position on island wind is both consistent and very clear – we must do all we can to enable our island communities to benefit from this substantial resource, large enough to meet 5% of total UK electricity demand, provide a significant boost to decarbonising our electricity supply, and would be worth up to £725m to local economies.” SSE and EDF are among the companies hoping to build windfarms on the islands.
(5) Alerted by worried passengers, the captain left his small wheelhouse on the top deck and climbed down to the engine bay, stepping over the huddled shapes of people sleeping.
(6) But this is the wheelhouse of the mayor of a modern megacity: a strange balance between issues of global importance and fripperies like openings, baby-kissing tours and pie-eating contests – and if you happen to be Boris Johnson, performing the Mobot from time to time.
(7) He was subjected to violence and transported to a nearby base where he was assaulted by Leader and Wheelhouse.
(8) These people are working hard delivering the services we all need and they shouldn’t be made to feel lesser mortals because they cannot afford to buy a house.” High on the hill at Hoprigshiels, with a piper in full flow playing Scotland the Brave, Wheelhouse hailed the scheme as a pacesetter, as he smashed a bottle of whisky against the base of one turbine to inaugurate the project last month.
(9) The chief campaign committee is called the wheelhouse, after the room from which a ship is steered.
(10) Captain Jody Wheelhouse, from 45 Commando, Arbroath, Scotland, admitted the same offence at an earlier hearing.
(11) But as I stood in the wheelhouse of expedition cruise ship Stella Australis, the perfect storm of a dawn shore excursion, followed by a bellyful of cooked breakfast – plus a “warming” mug of hot grog – conspired to leave me feeling a little nauseous.
(12) Government to float Royal Mail on stock exchange 'in the coming weeks' Updated at 10.44am BST 8.32am BST The privatisation has also been criticised by Paul Wheelhouse MSP , a member of the Scottish Nationalist Party in the Scottish Parliament.
(13) Paul Wheelhouse, the Scottish environment minister, insists he will not allow environmental protection to suffer, but said the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the official body which protects water quality, is under pressure to speed up its approval system for new sites to help increase production.
(14) Those in the wheelhouse say the Lib Dem vote is holding up in the party’s fortress seats, as long as Labour supporters vote tactically to keep the Tories out.
(15) Wheelhouse was sentenced to dismissal with disgrace, while Leader was dismissed.
(16) What is happening here is a ‘first’ – relieving housing pressure by harnessing the wind for the benefit of everyone,” enthuses Scotland’s energy minister, Paul Wheelhouse.
(17) The environment minister, Paul Wheelhouse, said there was "a particular risk associated of a high tide of up to 4.5 metres (15ft) on eastern coastal areas" in the early hours.
(18) And, unlike in England, Wheelhouse insists that onshore windfarms are similarly supported rather than discouraged, in a drive to ramp up generation from renewable sources.