manuals
SayMAN-yoo-uhlzUS/ˈmæn.j(u)əlz/UK/ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əlz/
- 1Plural of manual.
The cathedral's organ has four manuals and a full pedalboard.
I keep the manuals for every appliance in one kitchen drawer.
Note
The plural is regular, and it gathers meanings that have little in common: instruction booklets, drills in handling weapons, the keyboards of an organ, and gearboxes the driver shifts by hand. The gearbox meaning also works uncountably, so a car can simply come in manual, with no article and no plural, while manuals counts the gearboxes themselves.
manuals is a form of manual
manual, noun: A booklet of instructions explaining how to use a particular machine or product. Full entry
- Forms
- manualmanuals plural
- Spelling
- manual → manuals: add -s
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