different between navigate vs runnable

English

Etymology

From Middle English navigate, from Latin n?vig?, from n?vis (“ship”) + ag? (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?næv.?.?e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?næv.?.?e?t/, enPR: n?v?-?-g?t

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, computing) 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. (transitive, figuratively) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.

Hyponyms

• circumnavigate

Derived terms

• navigation
• navigator
• navigable

Related terms

• naval
• navy

Translations

Further reading

• navigate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• navigate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• navigate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• vaginate

Esperanto

Adverb

navigate

1. present adverbial passive participle of navigi

Italian

Verb

navigate

1. second-person plural present indicative of navigare
2. second-person plural imperative of navigare
3. feminine plural of navigato

Anagrams

• negativa

Latin

Verb

n?vig?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of n?vig?

Participle

n?vig?te

1. vocative masculine singular of n?vig?tus

English

Etymology

run +? -able

Adjective

runnable (not comparable)

1. (computing) Capable of being run.
2. (of a watercourse) That can be navigated by boat.

Antonyms

• unrunnable
• (computing): nonrunnable

Anagrams

• lean burn, lean-burn