navigator
pronunciation
How to pronounce navigator in British English:
UK [ˈnævɪɡeɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce navigator in American English:
US [ˈnævɪɡeɪtər]
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- Noun:
- the ship's officer in charge of navigation
- the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course
- in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
Word Origin
- navigator (n.)
- 1580s, "one who navigates," from Latin navigator "sailor," agent noun from navigat-, stem of navigare (see navigation). Meaning "laborer employed in excavating a canal" is 1775, from sense in inland navigation "communication by canals and rivers" (1727).
Example
- 1. Then you can fasten the whole two-person sex pod to a stable object -- like captain pike or a guild navigator .
- 2. Many early large aircraft had a crew of five : two pilots , a flight engineer , a navigator and a radio operator .
- 3. Still , an autopsy of the navigator found his blood-alcohol level , at 0.081 % , was above the legal limit for driving in russia or the u. s.
- 4. Nodding his thanks to his exec , mcclaren turned to the most important person currently on the bridge : the navigator . " Raisa , what 's the word ? "
- 5. First the radio operator went , then the navigator , and by the time the jet era was well under way in the 1970s flight engineers began to disappear too .