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# manual

«manual» in Mova's school dictionary: **done by hand or by a person's effort, not by a machine:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; noun (a manual, manuals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Manual means done by hand or by a person's effort, not by a machine: «manual work». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#m1)

2) A manual is a book of instructions telling you how to use or fix something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#m2)

3) A manual car has gears the driver changes by hand (called a «stick shift» in the US). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life (instruction manual, manual labour), school (manual skills, handwriting), and cars. Phrases: «user manual», «manual work», «manual override».

### examples

- Read the manual before using the drill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#x1)
- Building a wall is hard manual work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#x2)
- Dad drives a manual car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#x3)
- The game came with a thin manual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#x4)
- You can switch the camera to manual mode. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#x5)
- Farm work used to be mostly manual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#x6)

### note

Adverb: manually (done by hand). Opposite: automatic. «Manual» comes from Latin «hand».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manual» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.