manual

Pluralmanuals

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A small book that tells you how to use a machine or other product.

   Read the manual before you turn on the new washing machine.

   The manual for my phone is only four pages long.

   Similarhandbook, guide

2. 2
   adjective

   Describes work or an action that is done using your hands.

   Lifting boxes all day is tiring manual work.

   He does manual jobs like painting and fixing fences.

   Similarphysical

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A book that tells you the main facts or steps for a subject.

   Every new worker gets a manual with the company rules.

   Keep a first-aid manual in the car in case someone gets hurt.

   Similarhandbook

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4. 4
   adjective

   Done by a person, not by a machine.

   The computer was down, so the shop did a manual count of everything on the shelves.

   Manual checks still find mistakes that the software misses.

   Oppositeautomated, automatic

5. 5
   adjective

   Describes a machine or tool that you work with your hands.

   We used a manual pump to put air in the bike tires.

   My grandma still opens cans with a manual can opener.

   Similarhand-operated

   Oppositeautomatic

6. 6
   nouncountable

   A device that a person works by hand, instead of one that runs by machine.

   Do you brush with an electric toothbrush or a manual?

   Our coffee grinder is a manual, so you turn the handle yourself.

   Oppositeautomatic

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7. 7
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A gearbox, often in a car, that the driver shifts by hand.

   This truck has a manual, so you have to change the gears yourself.

   The old manual in my car makes a noise when I change gears.

   Oppositeautomatic

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8. 8
   nounmetonymicallycountable or uncountable

   A car or other vehicle in which the driver changes the gears by hand.

   Can you drive a manual?

   My dad taught me to drive in his old manual.

   Oppositeautomatic

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9. 9
   noununcountable

   Control by a person, not by the machine on its own.

   When the sensor broke, we ran the lights on manual.

   Switch the heater to manual and pick the heat yourself.

   Oppositeautomatic

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10. 10
    nouncountable or uncountable

    A typewriter that works by hand, not an electronic one.

    My aunt still writes her letters on an old manual.

    The keys on a manual are harder to press than on an electronic typewriter.

11. 11
    nouncountable or uncountable

    A keyboard you play with your hands on an organ or a similar instrument.

    This organ has three manuals, one above the other.

    She moved her right hand up to the top manual for the next part.

    Similarkeyboard

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12. 12
    nouncountable

    Practice that soldiers do in handling their weapons and other gear.

    The new soldiers practiced the manual with their rifles every morning.

    The guards did the manual perfectly in front of the crowd.

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