Dictionary entry details
• NAVIGATION (noun)
Meaning:
The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
navigation; pilotage; piloting
Hypernyms ("navigation" is a kind of...):
direction; guidance; steering (the act of setting and holding a course)
Domain member category:
bear down on; bear down upon (sail towards another vessel, of a ship)
barge (transport by barge on a body of water)
raft (transport on a raft)
ferry (transport from one place to another)
ferry (transport by ferry)
ferry (travel by ferry)
wear ship (turn away from the wind)
tack; wear round (turn into the wind)
outpoint (sail closer to the wind than)
rack; scud (run before a gale)
beat (sail with much tacking or with difficulty)
sail (travel in a boat propelled by wind)
yacht (travel in a yacht)
steam; steamer (travel by means of steam power)
boat (ride in a boat on water)
weather (sail to the windward of)
luff; point (sail close to the wind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "navigation"):
instrument flying (navigation of an airplane solely by instruments)
astronavigation; celestial navigation (navigating according to the positions of the stars)
dead reckoning (navigation without the aid of celestial observations)
Meaning:
Ship traffic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts
Hypernyms ("navigation" is a kind of...):
shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)
Meaning:
The work of a sailor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
sailing; seafaring; navigation
Hypernyms ("navigation" is a kind of...):
employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)
Meronyms (parts of "navigation"):
steerage; steering (the act of steering a ship)
Domain member category:
close to the wind (nearly opposite to the direction from which wind is coming)
steerageway ((nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered)
bell; ship's bell ((nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.)
beam-ends ((nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel)
capsizing ((nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water)
towing line; towing rope; towline; towrope ((nautical) a rope used in towing)
fireroom; stokehold; stokehole ((nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired)
sternpost ((nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel)
stand out (steer away from shore, of ships)
starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)
close-hauled (having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible)
fore (situated at or toward the bow of a vessel)
atrip; aweigh ((of an anchor) just clear of the bottom)
rigged (fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc))
unrigged (stripped of rigging)
fore-and-aft (parallel with the keel of a boat or ship)
antifouling ((used of e.g. coatings) protecting against accumulation of barnacles etc on underwater surfaces)
stay ((nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar)
spun yarn ((nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together)
mainsheet; sheet; shroud; tack; weather sheet ((nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind)
tack; tacking ((nautical) the act of changing tack)
accommodation ladder ((nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside)
becket ((nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship)
bilge well ((nautical) a well where seepage drains to be pumped away)
bitter end ((nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt)
chip (a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line)
deadeye ((nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud)
escutcheon ((nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed)
jack ladder; Jacob's ladder; pilot ladder ((nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps)
laniard; lanyard ((nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships)
lead line; sounding line ((nautical) plumb line for determining depth)
luff ((nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast)
overhead ((nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship)
ratlin; ratline ((nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft)
rudder ((nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel)
sea ladder; sea steps ((nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard)
leg ((nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "navigation"):
cabotage (navigation in coastal waters)
