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# joystick

noun (a joystick, joysticks)

«joystick» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A joystick is a lever that you push in any direction to control a video game, a computer or a machine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#m1)
2. A joystick is also the control stick of an aeroplane, used by the pilot to steer it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#x1)
- My game controller has two joysticks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#x2)
- The pilot pulled back on the joystick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#x3)
- A joystick is an input device. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#x4)
- The crane driver used a joystick to lift the beam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#x5)
- Grandad steers his electric wheelchair with a small joystick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «joystick» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«joystick» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/joystick.html) on Mova free.