Joystick vs. Mouse

Joystick vs. Mouse — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Joystick and Mouse

Joysticknoun

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.

Mousenoun

Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

Joysticknoun

(slang) A penis.

Mousenoun

(informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

Joystickverb

(rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.

Mousenoun

A quiet or shy person.

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Joysticknoun

a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane

Mousenoun

(computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

Joysticknoun

a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers

Mousenoun

(boxing) Hematoma.

Mousenoun

(nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.

Mousenoun

(obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.

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Mousenoun

A match used in firing guns or blasting.

Mousenoun

(set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).

Mousenoun

(historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.

Mouseverb

(intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).

Mouseverb

(intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.

Mouseverb

To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

Mouseverb

To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

Mouseverb

To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Mousenoun

any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

Mousenoun

a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the mouse is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad;

a mouse takes much more room than a trackball

Mouseverb

to go stealthily or furtively;

..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

Mouseverb

manipulate the mouse of a computer