Adjacent Words

joystick definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane [syn: stick, control stick, joystick]
2: a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: perhaps from English slang joystick penis Date: 1910 1. a lever in an airplane that operates the elevators by a fore-and-aft motion and the ailerons by a side-to-side motion 2. a control for any of various devices (as a computer) that resembles an airplane's joystick especially in being capable of motion in two or more directions

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 colloq. the control column of an aircraft. 2 a lever that can be moved in several directions to control the movement of an image on a VDU screen.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(joysticks) 1. In some computer games, the joystick is the lever which the player uses in order to control the direction of the things on the screen. N-COUNT: usu sing 2. In an aircraft, the joystick is the lever which the pilot uses to control the direction and height of the aeroplane. N-COUNT: usu sing