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How to use joystick in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Joystick means a mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment. Example: “The joystick had a suckered base to keep it on the table.”

Examples of joystick by meaning

nounA mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more...

  • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140

verbTo maneuver by means of a joystick (noun sense 1).

  • Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell, page 124
  • Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, page 254
  • It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II, page 106

More sentences with joystick

  • The joystick had a suckered base to keep it on the table.From the entry suckered
  • The game will not respond to small movements of the joystick, until the stick is pushed out of its dead zone.From the entry deadband
  • For many video gamers, juggling a joystick and a pizza is second nature.2005 April 3, Jeremy Caplan, “Game On, Hold The Pepperoni”, in Time. From the entry second nature
  • It's not an exact simulation and it's not a joystick waggler.1998, Mike Fairweather, “International cricket captain, opinions wanted”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet). From the entry joystick waggler
  • High-speed autofire and a choice of two joystick sizes are featured.1989 October, Popular Mechanics, volume 166, number 10. From the entry autofire
  • Two floors above, a young Sellafield employee sat in a gaming chair, working at a laptop with a joystick.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian. From the entry toilet brush
  • For nonalphanumerical information, some special-purpose peripheral devices have been designed, such as pen, tablet, mouse, trackball, joystick, touch-sensitive panel, and glove.2011, 3C Vision: Cues, Context and Channels, 3C Vision: Cues, Context and Channels, page 6. From the entry nonalphanumerical
  • Popeye 3 is an out-and-out joystick waggler.1992, Jon Pillar, Popeye III (game review) in Your Sinclair 83, November 1992. From the entry joystick waggler
  • Also the crappy joystick, the SJS1, is useless.1990 March, Letters: Your Sinclair, number 51. From the entry autofire
  • Fitting any of the joysticks to a Spectrum proved tedious.1984, Practical Computing, volume 7, page 93. From the entry expansion slot
  • You may also see very unauthorized Famiclones — third-party, unlicensed NES joysticks, sometimes with an attached light gun and not as many games as the packaging says.2005, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 34. From the entry Famiclone
  • While consumer computers offer color graphics, joysticks, and other video game spinoffs, their computational ability is not nearly as powerful as that of some similarly priced appliance computers.1988, Random House Value Publishing, Home Computers, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry appliance computer
  • Various wands and clippers and cauterizers went into other little holes, and while watching the screens, the two doctors moved them around as if working joysticks on a video game.2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times. From the entry cauterizer
  • Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph. From the entry Internet hunt

Meaning of joystick

  1. noun A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.
  2. noun A penis.
  3. verb To maneuver by means of a joystick (noun sense 1).

Full definition of joystick

Questions about joystick in a sentence

How do you use joystick in a sentence?
Joystick is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The joystick had a suckered base to keep it on the table.”
What is a short sentence with joystick?
“Popeye 3 is an out-and-out joystick waggler.”
What does joystick mean?
Joystick means a mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.

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