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adjective

done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
involving or using human effort, skill, power, energy, etc.; physical: manual labor.
of or relating to the hand or hands: manual deformities.
of the nature of a manual or handbook: manual instructions.

noun

Dictionary Entry Example

a small book, especially one giving information or instructions: a manual of mathematical tables.
a nonelectric or nonelectronic typewriter; a typewriter whose keys and carriage may be powered solely by the typist's hands.
Military. the prescribed drill in handling a rifle: the manual of arms.
Music. a keyboard, especially one of several belonging to a pipe organ.

Nearby words

mantrap, mantua, manu, manu samoa, manua islands, manual, manual alphabet, manual training, manual transmission, manual ventilation, manualism
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Origin of manual

1375–1425;< Latinmanuālis (adj.), manuāle (noun) (something) that can be held in the hand (manu(s) hand + -ālis, -āle-al1, -al2); replacing late Middle Englishmanuel< Middle French< Latin, as above

Related forms

man·u·al·ly, adverbnon·man·u·al, adjectivenon·man·u·al·ly, adverbun·man·u·al, adjective
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Examples from the Web for manual

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  • One of the core principles of my system of productivity, Less Doing, is something I call “Creating the Manual of You.”

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  • He still had the old Remington manual typewriter on which he punched out Run to Daylight!

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  • In Life a User's Manual, Perec uses excess to slip the bounds of realism.

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  • Now and then, a postcard would arrive with a curt message, typed on a manual typewriter.

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  • These all work every other day at manual labor or some useful trade.

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  • For the first time in a generation human beings did manual labor such as unloading produce trucks.

  • The conventional type of manual training—one period per week in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades—was not holding the pupils.

  • In a little while the whole army was under drill; for a great part, made up of raw militia, scarcely knew the manual exercise.

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  • She had supplied herself betimes with a manual of etiquette, which she had studied with the assiduity of a diligent school-girl.

British Dictionary definitions formanual

adjective

operated or done by handmanual controls
physical, as opposed to mental or mechanicalmanual labour
by human labour rather than automatic or computer-aided means

noun

a book, esp of instructions or informationa car manual
musicone of the keyboards played by hand on an organ

Derived Forms

manually, adverb

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Word Origin for manual

C15: via Old French from Latin manuālis, from manus hand
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