Synonyms of the word

navigation

• n. (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship…
• n. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
• n. (countable) A canal.

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

employment

• n. A use, purpose.
• n. The act of employing.
• n. The state of being employed.
• n. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid.
• n. An activity to which one devotes time.
• n. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work.

guidance

• n. The act or process of guiding.
• n. Advice or counselling on some topic.
• n. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

pilotage

• n. The use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination.
• n. The occupation of a pilot.
• n. The fee paid to a pilot.

piloting

• v. present participle of pilot.
• n. the form of navigation in which position is determined by relation to external reference points.

sailing

• n. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.
• n. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel.
• n. the time of departure from a port.
• n. (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
• adj. Travelling by ship.
• v. present participle of sail.

seafaring

• adj. Living one's life at sea.
• adj. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.
• n. The work, or calling of a sailor.

shipping

• n. The transportation of goods.
• n. The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
• n. Passage or transport on a ship.
• n. The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
• n. Navigation.
• v. present participle of ship.

steering

• v. present participle of steer.
• n. Equipment used to control direction; something used to steer.

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.

transportation

• n. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
• n. (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
• n. (US) A means of conveyance.
• n. (US) A ticket or fare.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.