| 单词 | joystick |
| 释义 | joystick (once / 58224 pages) n A joystick is a handle-like device that you use to control your character in a video game. If you want your character to move left, you generally move the joystick to the left. Originally, a joystick was the control an airplane pilot uses to adjust the movements of the plane — by moving the joystick back and forth, the pilot adjusts the roll, and moving it up and down controls the pitch of the plane's nose. Joystick was aviators' slang for this lever, and the makers of the earliest video games, in the 1970s, adopted the word for their similarly-shaped control. WORD FAMILYjoystick: joysticks USAGE EXAMPLESHovering above him, another object responds to the commands Zahnd issues with his hi-tech joystick. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) The user holds the joystick in one hand and inserts their thumb into the unattached ring. Reuters(Dec 06, 2016) I side with the Luddites here: Electric joystick selectors can be unwieldy. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1n 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 Hyper control, controller a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine data input device, input devicea device that can be used to insert data into a computer or other computational device 2n a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane Syn|Hyper control stick, stick lever a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum |
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