English noun: navigation |
| 1. | navigation (act) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place |
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| Synonyms | pilotage, piloting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | direction, guidance, steering |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | astronavigation, celestial navigation, dead reckoning, instrument flying |
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| Domain category members | barge, bear down on, bear down upon, beat, boat, ferry, ferry, ferry, luff, outpoint, point, rack, raft, sail, scud, steam, steamer, tack, wear round, wear ship, weather, yacht |
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| 2. | navigation (act) ship traffic |
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| Samples | The channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts.
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| Broader (hypernym) | shipping, transport, transportation |
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| 3. | navigation (act) the work of a sailor |
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| Synonyms | sailing, seafaring |
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| Broader (hypernym) | employment, work |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | cabotage |
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| Part holonym | steerage, steering |
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| Domain category members | accommodation ladder, atrip, aweigh, beam-ends, becket, bell, bilge well, bitter end, capsizing, chip, close to the wind, close-hauled, deadeye, escutcheon, fireroom, fore, fore-and-aft, jack ladder, Jacob's ladder, laniard, lanyard, lead line, leg, luff, mainsheet, overhead, pilot ladder, ratlin, ratline, rigged, rudder, sea ladder, sea steps, sheet, ship's bell, shroud, sounding line, spun yarn, stand out, starboard, stay, steerageway, sternpost, stokehold, stokehole, tack, tack, tacking, towing line, towing rope, towline, towrope, unrigged, weather sheet |
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