different between manoeuvre vs joystick

English

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English hand?eweorc, German Handwerk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• Rhymes: -u?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: ma?noeu?vre

Noun

manoeuvre (plural manoeuvres)

1. Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Verb

manoeuvre (third-person singular simple present manoeuvres, present participle manoeuvring, simple past and past participle manoeuvred)

1. (transitive) Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Derived terms

• manoeuvrable

See also

• overtaking

Anagrams

• manoeuver, manœuver

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