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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guidance |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, capacity, command, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, directorship, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, pilotage, power, preeminence, primacy, skill, superintendency, superiority, supremacy, sway |
| Concept: | [Locomotion by water, or air] Navigation. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
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-nouns
navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron., natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail., aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion., voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway., mariner.
-verbs
sail; put to sea (depart); 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, dive, wade., fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter; take wing, take a flight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate.
-adjectives
sailing; volant, aerostatic; seafaring, nautical, maritiime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory.
-adverbs
under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing.
-phrases
bon voyage; "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale" [Pope].
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