different between joystick vs trackpad

English

Etymology

From joy +? stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

Pronunciation

Noun

joystick (plural joysticks)

1. 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.

2. (slang) A penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

Translations

Verb

joystick (third-person singular simple present joysticks, present participle joysticking, simple past and past participle joysticked)

1. (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
   • 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.

Further reading

• joystick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English joystick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???i?.st?k/
• Hyphenation: joy?stick

Noun

joystick m (plural joysticks, diminutive joystickje n)

1. A joystick.
2. A tiller extension.

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?oi?stik/, [?d?o?i?s?t?ik]

Noun

joystick

1. (especially gaming) Synonym of sauvaohjain (“joystick”)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English joystick.

Noun

joystick m (invariable)

1. joystick (device)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English joystick

Noun

joystick m (definite singular joysticken, indefinite plural joysticker, definite plural joystickene)

1. a joystick

References

• “joystick” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “joystick” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English joystick

Noun

joystick m (definite singular joysticken, indefinite plural joystickar, definite plural joystickane)

1. a joystick

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English joystick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ois?tik/, [t??oi?s?t?ik]

Noun

joystick m (plural joysticks)

1. joystick

English

Etymology

from track +? pad, coined by Apple Inc.

Noun

trackpad (plural trackpads)

1. touchpad

Hypernyms

• pad

Translations

See also

• trackball
• trackpoint

References

• trackpad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

trackpad m (plural trackpads or trackpad)

1. trackpad