Definition: 1. A small handbook. 2. (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle. 3. Of or relating to the hands. 4. Requiring human effort. 5. Doing or requiring physical work.
Use 'manual' in a sentence:
1. The second is a mixed traffic system: fully automated vehicles would share the road with partially automated or manual driven cars.
2. He bought a manual of car repairs.
3. He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter.
4. Framestore used body doubles with resemblance to Hepburn's facial structure and body shape as a framework for manual animation.
5. It has no manual focus facility.
6. The floors of all campus buildings are equipped with manual fire alarm systems which include fire alarm pull stations and pipes ．
7. The instruction manual completely defeated me.
8. The worst part of the setup is the poor instruction manual.
9. One is the acceleration of the substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor.
10. They have no reservations about taking factory or manual jobs.
11. His manual dexterity and fine spatial skills were wasted on routine tasks.
12. He consulted the manual.
13. There's been a great change in the misplacement of the income of intellectual workers falling short of that of manual workers.
14. In the 21st century the nature of work has predominantly moved from being manual labour and manufacturing to service economy based upon technological innovation.
15. The new workers are asked to study the operation manual over again.
16. Acupressure is manual pressure applied to a specific slightly depressed point on the body.
17. During this period, production developed from manual work to wheel work.
18. Three types of adjustable turning rolls: manual lead screw adjusting, manual bolt shifting and electric sliding plate shifting.
19. It's not like there's a manual, you know?
20. Few can equal [ compare with] her in manual dexterity.
21. There is a manual pump to get rid of the water.
22. The inventor of the machine claims that it will reduce labor costs by virtually eliminating the need for manual weeding.
23. Manual workers need a good breakfast for high-energy output.
24. Soldiers are supposed to follow the instruction manual during military exercises.
25. It does not measure character, social adjus tment, physical endurance, manual skills, or artistic abilities.
26. So the best thing is to send out the manual for every pack.
27. The manual is full of the jargon and slang of self-improvement courses.
28. Unskilled manual occupations usually don't earn much.
29. The best thing is to send out the manual for every pack.
30. The worst part of the set-up is the poor instruction manual.
31. Cadres have gone down to different grass-roots units to take part in manual labour.
32. Although fuzz testing usually requires some manual coding, there are tools that can help.
33. His hands have become calloused, because he does heavy manual work every day.
34. Certainly, the limitations imposed by manual labor and the locally available materials of mud-brick and timber necessitated a divergence from the original European church model.
35. He has read the manual carefully so that the product won't be misapplied.
36. The fullest exposition of Coleridge's thought can be found in the States-man's Manual.
37. There was a comfortable-looking clerk on duty, tapping away on a manual typewriter.
38. The author of How to Be Interesting: An Instruction Manual, Hagy spends a lot of time thinking about what's interesting to her.
39. In this case, the transition from manual to auto mated control would take place on the entrance ramp.
40. All work is of equal value, so we can't look down upon those manual workers.
41. The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.
42. I'd like to look at last year's project manual.
43. The manual fire alarm systems includes fire alarm pull stations and pipes.
44. You need manual dexterity to be good at video games.
45. My camera has manual and automatic functions.
46. Read the manual to learn the program's finer points.
47. The framework will automatically locate and execute files for you, without requiring any manual intervention.
48. She opened her desk drawer and took out the manual.
49. Too often he only absorbs half the information in the manual.
50. Most manual labor in the past has been replaced by modern machines.
51. The floors of all campus buildings are equipped with manual fire alarm system.
