Navigate vs Manipulate - What's the difference?
navigate | manipulate |
To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.
To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
(computing) To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
(medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
In transitive terms the difference between navigate and manipulate
is that navigate is to plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course while manipulate is to influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.navigate
English
Verb
- He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
- We navigated to France in the dinghy.
- It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
