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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/#m2)

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

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «joystick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joystick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.