joystick

«joystick» in Mova's school dictionary: a lever that you push in any direction to control a video… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a joystick, joysticks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A joystick is a lever that you push in any direction to control a video game, a computer or a machine. tree →

2) A joystick is also the control stick of an aeroplane, used by the pilot to steer it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children use joysticks on game controllers; in computing lessons, a joystick is an «input device», like a mouse or keyboard. Powered wheelchairs, cranes, drones and robots are also driven with joysticks. Phrases: «move the joystick», «joystick controller».

examples

• Push the joystick left to make the car turn. tree →
• My game controller has two joysticks. tree →
• The pilot pulled back on the joystick. tree →
• A joystick is an input device. tree →
• The crane driver used a joystick to lift the beam. tree →
• Grandad steers his electric wheelchair with a small joystick. tree →

note

Countable; one word. In computing lessons, a joystick is input (information goes into the computer), while a screen is output.

In the corpora

• Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «joystick» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.