different between navigation vs navvy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin n?vig?ti?nem, accusative singular of n?vig?ti? (“sailing, navigation”), from n?vig?tus, perfect passive participle of n?vig? (“sail”).Morphologically navigate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næv???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

navigation (usually uncountable, plural navigations)

1. (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.
2. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
3. (countable) A canal.

Derived terms

• navigation light
• radionavigation

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?vig?ti?nem, accusative singular of n?vig?ti? (“sailing, navigation”), from n?vig?tus, perfect passive participle of n?vig? (“sail”). Surface etymology is naviguer +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vi.?a.sj??/

Noun

navigation f (plural navigations)

1. navigation

Related terms

• naviguer

Further reading

• “navigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin n?vig?ti?, attested from 1680.

Noun

navigation c (uncountable)

1. navigation

Declension

References

English

Etymology

Clipping of navigator, in reference to the navigation canals upon which these workers first toiled, + -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nævi/
• Hyphenation: nav?vy

Noun

navvy (plural navvies)

1. (chiefly Britain) A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
   • 1909, B. Lindsay, Stories of the Universe: Animal Life

     Suppose two lads, fresh from school, go out into the world to earn their living; one becomes a navvy and one a clerk. In five years' time these two young men will probably be very different in appearance from one another. The navvy will have developed his muscles; he will be broad-built, broad-chested, and strong.

Derived terms

• French navvy
• steam navvy

Related terms

• navigation
• navigator

Translations

Verb

navvy (third-person singular simple present navvies, present participle navvying, simple past and past participle navvied)

1. (Britain, intransitive) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
   • 1974, Malcolm MacDonald, World From Rough Stones, 2013, unnumbered page,

     But by pretending to believe he's navvied before, I've given him double reason to drive himself hard.

   • 1978, John Shaw Neilson, The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson, page 104,

     Before my time of navvying I believe the times were still worse.

   • 1995, F. R. Leavis, Ian Duncan MacKillop, Richard Storer (editors), F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents, 2005, page 89,

     Three terms to use for George Eliot: the feminine imagination and sensibility; Intellect, the capacity for higher navvying; Intelligence.