Manual
['mænjʊ(ə)l] or ['mænjuəl]
Definition
(noun.) a small handbook.
(adj.) requiring human effort; 'a manual transmission' .
(adj.) of or relating to the hands; 'manual dexterity' .
(adj.) doing or requiring physical work; 'manual labor'; 'manual laborer' .
Checker: Zelig--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
(a.) A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
(a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
(a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Of the hand, by the hand.
n. Hand-book.
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Definition
adj. pertaining to the hand: done made or used by the hand.—n. drill in the use of weapons &c.: a handbook: a handy compendium of a large subject or treatise: the key-board of an organ &c.: an old office-book like the modern R.C. ritual.—adv. Man′ually.—Manual alphabet the letters made by the deaf and dumb with the hand in conversation; Manual exercise the exercise by which soldiers are made to handle their arms.
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Examples
- How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This manual action seemed to deprecate words, to enjoin silence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He put such a vessel at work in a canal, working the pumps by manual labor, and suggested the employment of a steam engine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And why are mean employments and manual arts a reproach? Plato. The Republic.
- One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The work is much quickened by the substitution of steam power, water power, or even horse power for manual labor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As he contemplated the concentration of six thousand tons daily, the expense of manual labor to move such an immense quantity of rock, sand, and ore would be absolutely prohibitive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The fear of raw material is shown in laboratory, manual training shop, Froebelian kindergarten, and Montessori house of childhood. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Other modern inventions in well-making machinery have consisted in innumerable devices to supplant manual labour and to meet new conditions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The types are inked by a series of rollers, by which the ink is distributed and evenly laid on the face of the types without any manual labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The process of bottling requires great manual dexterity. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ordinary manual transmission by key is not in excess of forty to fifty words a minute. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Man’s natural dislike for manual labor quickly found objection to the physical effort of bicycle travel, and accordingly sought to devise mechanical means of overcoming it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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