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Joystick vs Select - What's the difference?

joystick | select |

As a noun 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.

As a verb joystick

is (rare) to manoeuvre by means of a joystick.

As an adjective select is

select.

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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    select

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Privileged, specially selected.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • Of high quality; top-notch.
  • :

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
    • He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
    The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.

    Synonyms

    * (to choose) choose, opt

    Related terms

    * elect * election * elective * elite * selection * selective

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