单词 | joystick |
释义 | joystickn.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > equipment willow1846 baseball1853 bat1856 baseball bat1858 base bag1863 baseball glove1884 apple1902 rabbit ball1907 joystick1908 1908 New Castle (Pa.) News 24 July 11/1 He did not set the world on fire with his joy stick, but he was breaking down clean hits in all sections of the short field and getting his man at first. 1909 Pacific Commerc. Advertiser (Honolulu) 1 Oct. 3/2 Conlon was there with the joy stick and made a threebagger with the bases full. 2. slang. A cigarette (esp. one containing marijuana) or cigar; (occasionally also) an opium pipe. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > other types of cigarette Russian cigarette1851 papirosa1856 Egyptian1892 Russian1892 tickler1904 joystick1911 gyppy1920 king-size1920 Sobranie1923 virgin1923 Turk1926 roll-your-own1932 ready roll1949 roll-up1950 filter1956 filterless1956 rollie1964 Virginia1964 untipped1968 primo1986 1911 San Antonio (Texas) Light 25 June 6/5 He lifted about a dozen of his dad's seegars..and we all went out into the woods and lit a joy-stick apiece. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 123/1 Joy stick, an opium pipe. 1962 H. Simmons Man walking on Eggshells 166 ‘Not quite, baby, not quite,’ he said, passing her the sweet-tasting joy stick. 2006 I. Greaves et al. Emergency Care (ed. 2) 529/1 Street names for cannabis include bhang, dope,..joint, joy sticks, [etc.]. 3. a. The control column of an aircraft. Later also in extended use: any of various similar levers used to control the motion of a vehicle.The earliest joysticks were connected mechanically to the aircraft's elevators and ailerons, so that the position of these could be simultaneously controlled by movement along each of two axes (fore-and-aft and side-to-side); in many later devices control is exerted electrically.Quot. a1935 purports to be from a diary entry of 1910. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > controls > control column or lever control column1902 yoke1904 joystick1913 stick1914 control stick1916 side stick1955 1913 Chichester Observer 23 Apr. 7/1 When flying, if a wing rises the joy stick must be moved over towards it, pushing it down. a1935 R. Loraine in W. Loraine Robert Loraine (1938) vi. 105 In order that he shall not blunder inadvertently into the air, the central lever—otherwise the cloche, or joy-stick is tied well forward. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 104 Joysticks, the two levers by which the steering of tanks and some other tracked vehicles was controlled. 1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 34 Easing the joy-sticks to their mid-riffs. 1985 R. S. Peffer Watermen (1991) 23 [He] maneuvered his boat by twisting a ‘joy stick’ rigged by cables to the rudder. 2017 USA Today (Nexis) 6 July 3 b The plane has safety features that allow even an unskilled novice to briefly take the joystick. b. A lever or lever-like device that can be moved in any direction, in the manner of a joystick (sense 3a), the position of the lever being used to determine the two-dimensional position of something (such as an image, cursor, light spot, etc., on a computer or similar display screen, esp. in a video game), or more generally to control two parameters of a system simultaneously. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > electronic games > specific piece of equipment joystick1952 1952 A. Tustin Automatic & Man. Control 467 Both hands held at approximately elbow height a joystick that could be rotated or deflected about a universal coupling, to control the spot movement in elevation and traverse. 1967 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 43/3 The system is simply operated by a keyboard and joystick—no computer programming knowledge is needed. 1972 Rolling Stone 7 Dec. 50/1 Rudimentary Spacewar consists of two humans, two sets of control buttons or joysticks, one TV–like display and one computer. 2001 Muzik Jan. 159/2 The other fader and the joystick provide instant twiddlability because they're assigned to various combinations of effect parameters (like filter cutoff, delay feedback, flanger depth, etc). 2014 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. (Business section) 5/1 The robotic exoskeleton..holds the legs in place while the user walks from place to place, controlled by a small joystick at waist height. 4. slang. The penis. ΚΠ 1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I. 161 Joy Stick, the penis. 1933 Brevities (N.Y.) 30 Sept. 8/2 (caption) But Colonel—you told me to grab your old Joy Stick, didn't you? 2003 R. Candappa University Challenged 21 So, chaps, if you want to have even the remotest chance of getting laid, then please lay down the controls of your console, or condemn yourself to a succession of solitary nights in your room, playing with your own joystick. Compounds General use as modifier (in sense 3). Also in appositive use. ΚΠ 1916 Flying Oct. 395/1 I was so pleased that in my excitement I pulled the joy stick lever and looped the loop several times. 1983 Your Computer (Austral.) Aug. 14/2 Standard features of the Fox-640 include a Forth programming system card, joystick port, [etc.]. 1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 30/2 Controls are fully proportional so that slow movements can be made under joystick control. 2010 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. c11/3 He must negotiate a complex system of points, levels and lives of a kind easily recognizable to any joystick jockey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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