Synonyms:
steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
Meaning: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
Synonyms:
steer
Meaning: direct (oneself) somewhere; "Steer clear of him"
Synonyms:
guide, steer
Meaning: be a guiding or motivating force or drive; "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"
Usage examples
"I believe you could steer in the dark," she declared.
If there is anything in the way, he can steer himself around it.
We had to steer more and more to the west, so that our course was very erratic.
The admiral stationed himself at the helm to steer, and the vice admirals took the oars.
Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
"Yes, and if Sylvia understood how to steer by the compass she could steer the Butterfly as well at night as she can now."
And after him Erginus and Nauplius and Euphemus started up, eager to steer. But the others held them back, and many of his comrades granted it to Ancaeus.
We held a course for 2 1/2 hours with difficulty, then the sun disappeared, and snow drove in our faces with northerly wind--very warm and impossible to steer, so camped.
We decided to steer for the moraine under Mt. Buckley and, pulling with crampons, we crossed some very irregular steep slopes with big crevasses and slid down towards the rocks.
It required all the address of the pilot to steer through the archipelago, going from one bank to another, avoiding the shallows, shirking the eddies, and maintaining the advance.