navigation

Roget category 267

2. Words relating to space
› 2.4. Motion
›› 2.4.1. Motion in general

#267. [Locomotion by water, or air.] Navigation

noun

navigation — aquatics — boating, yachting — ship etc. 273 — oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.
natation^†, swimming — fin, flipper, fish's tail.
aerostation^†, aerostatics^†, aeronautics — balloonery^† — balloon etc. 273 — ballooning, aviation, airmanship — flying, flight, volitation^† — wing, pinion — rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.
voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus^† — headway, sternway, leeway — fairway.
mariner etc. 269.
flight, trip — shuttle, run, airlift.

verb

sail — put to sea etc. (depart) 293 — take ship, get under way — set sail, spread sail, spread canvas — gather way, have way on — make sail, carry sail — plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean — walk the waters.
navigate, warp, luff^†, scud, boom, kedge — drift, course, cruise, coast — hug the shore, hug the land — circumnavigate.
ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
swim, float — buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade.
fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket — take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight — wing one's flight, wing one's way — aviate — parachute, jump, glide.

adjective

sailing etc. v. — volant^†, aerostatic^† — seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval — seagoing, coasting — afloat — navigable — aerial, aeronautic — grallatory^†.

adverb

under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam — on the wing, in flight, in orbit.

phrase

bon voyage — spread the thin oar and catch the driving spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale" [Pope].

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