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Joystick vs Joypad - What's the difference?

joystick | joypad |

As nouns the difference between joystick and joypad

is that joystick is a mechanical 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 while joypad is a type of game controller held in the hand, where the digits (especially thumbs) are used to provide input.

As a verb joystick

is to manoeuvre by means of a joystick.

joystick

English

(wikipedia joystick)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mechanical 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.
  • * 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
    • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.
  • (slang) A penis.

    • Verb

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

    English

    (wikipedia joypad)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games) A type of game controller held in the hand, where the digits (especially thumbs) are used to provide input
  • * 2000 , Rebbecca Ray, Pure , p362
    • I heard it through Michael's window, I dropped the joypad on his floor.
  • * 2004 , Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks , p146
    • If you enjoy playing arcade-style games on your PC, you may have found that they benefit immensely from a joypad .
  • * 2006 , Karl-Friedrich Kraiss (ed.), Advanced Man-Machine Interaction , p361
    • Joypads , as they are used in the gaming idustry, have the great advantage that they are designed to be used without looking at them (relief buttons, hand ergonomics).

    Synonyms

    * gamepad

    See also

    * joystick ----