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navigator

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Navy, Airforce
nav·i·ga·tor /ˈnævəɡeɪtə $ -tər/ noun [countable]  PMNPMPan officer on a ship or aircraft who plans which way it should go when it is travelling from one place to another 〔船舶或飞机上的〕领航员
Examples from the Corpus
navigatorBut I got lost in the doing of it, as navigators may, and we went beyond ourselves.Something unseemly attended the sea clock, in the eyes of scientists and celestial navigators.Clumsy on land Manx shear waters may be, but they are elegant fliers and first-class navigators.The well-dressed Lincoln navigator of the 1950s.They ended up talking to more than 200 of them, from a submarine navigator to a financial analyst for General Mills.At lunchtime, when everyone was brewing up, the navigator plotted all those little legs on to a map.The navigator claims it was like some sort of gateway through time but his captain died and he's obviously space-happy.
nav·i·ga·tor nounChineseSyllable
on or ship Corpus a officer an aircraft


navigator
navigator /ˈnævəɡeɪtə, ˈnævɪɡeɪtə $ -tər/ noun [countable]
an officer on a ship or aircraft who plans which way it should go when it is travelling from one place to another


navi·ga·torBrE /ˈnævɪɡeɪtə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈnævɪɡeɪtər/ 🔊 nouna person who navigates, for example on a ship or an aircraft (飞机、船舶等上的)领航员