Literary notes about navigate (AI summary)
The word “navigate” has long served as a linguistic bridge between the tangible act of piloting a vessel and the abstract process of finding one's way through complex systems. In early travel literature and maritime adventures, authors such as Marco Polo [1] and Jules Verne [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] used it to evoke the challenges and mastery of crossing vast, unpredictable seas, while even classical texts like the Bible [7, 8] imbued it with the significance of guided movement. In more modern contexts, “navigate” has evolved to describe interactions with digital environments, as seen in instructional texts that explain how to move through files, directories, and user interfaces [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. This dual usage—both literal and metaphorical—demonstrates the word’s flexibility in capturing human experiences, whether facing the physical obstacles of nature or the abstract challenges of navigating a virtual world.
- Of late the merchants of Genoa have begun to navigate this sea, carrying ships across and launching them thereon.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - I had to agree that Ned Land was right, and until ships are built to navigate over tracts of ice, they'll have to stop at the Ice Bank.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Finally, would he return to the seas of the Pacific, where his Nautilus could navigate freely and easily?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - "One can easily see," I answered, "that those historians didn't navigate aboard the Nautilus ."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - But how long would it take to navigate under the Ice Bank to the open sea?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - I then did Conseil the same favor, and we continued to "navigate" side by side.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Senhor Estulano let them navigate the vessel in their own way, exerting his authority only now and then when they were inclined to be lazy.
— from The King James Version of the Bible - They are a shrewd, hard-working people, and are the only Indians who willingly, and in a body, engage themselves to navigate the canoes of traders.
— from The King James Version of the Bible - The user knows some about how the service works, and just wants a short reminder to help navigate.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Some users draw 'road maps' of the services to navigate more quickly.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - On most bulletin boards, you must enter a command to navigate to the File Library.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Before doing that, you may have to navigate to a given file catalog (cd directory), and tell the host that the transfer is to be binary (bin).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - How to use menus, and how to navigate like an expert.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Navigate to the file area.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - The user can select (navigate) by pressing a figure or a letter.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Then log on, navigate to the desired services, do what you want to automate, and disconnect.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - You use the cd command (change directory) to navigate to the desired library catalog on the remote hard disk.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
