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Mechanical vs Joystick - What's the difference?

mechanical | joystick |

As a adjective mechanical

is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.

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.

mechanical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  • *, I.43:
  • all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
  • Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
  • Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
  • Done by machine.
  • Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
  • As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  • (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  • *, chapter=15
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • (informal) Handy with machines.
  • Derived terms

    * electromechanical * mechanical erasure * mechanicality * mechanically * mechanicalness * mechanical pencil * postmechanical * premechanical

    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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