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单词 manual
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Definition of manual in English:

manual

adjective ˈmanjʊ(ə)lˈmænjə(wə)l
  • 1Relating to or done with the hands.

    manual dexterity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Many associated them with big beard men working in manual occupations,’ he said.
    • As for Peter the Great, he might also have been akin to Edward II insofar as he was not afraid to indulge in manual occupations.
    • Response rates were lower in women with manual occupations and from ethnic minorities but did not differ by type of delivery, type of pain relief, parity, or age.
    • The program ODS2 also supports the manual alignment of physical and genetic maps.
    • They will tell her she is lying and they know that he does manual labour!
    • They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
    • His drones had been recalled and all of his cannons were on manual control with standby power.
    • This window provides manual control of the telescope and any attached peripherals, such as a filter wheel or dome control.
    • And who has good manual dexterity and coordination first thing in the morning?
    • I'm not complaining; it's great to have such a ready supply of manual labour.
    • Who would have thought that manual labouring could be so fun?
    • This gives rise to the first of the above definitions of dexterity as manual skill and neat-handedness.
    • Persons who do not have the time or the manual dexterity for these duties will have to entrust them to a competent groomer.
    • And he did so with an enviable manual dexterity driven by a witty, incisive mind.
    • Loss of abilities related to manual dexterity may affect work performance and may threaten or end essential career options.
    • For that dwindling portion of the population employed in manual labour, alternative work could be supplied.
    • Lana took manual control of the sensor grid's scan cycle and focused it on the ship.
    • Not one critic, however, diminished the incredible manual dexterity needed to create them.
    • It also heard that Bradford babies who died in their first year were more likely to have fathers in manual occupations than in other occupational groups.
    • After my five seconds of philosophizing, the next thing I noticed was my rapid loss of manual dexterity.
    Synonyms
    done with one's hands, labouring, physical, blue-collar
    1. 1.1 (of a device) operated or controlled by hand, rather than automatically or electronically.
      a manual typewriter
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A combination of automatic and manual controls produced a 61 percent savings on energy.
      • There was a deliberate insertion of a manual valve rather than an automatic fail safe.
      • A system operator can instruct a manual switch at anytime, load new software or reboot systems from this PC.
      • Too often, high-efficiency light sources are connected to a manual switch.
      • The SUAV must fly using autonomous or manual control to selected points.
      • Conrad used a propane burner under an old steel drum, an electric motor to turn mixing blades, and a manual pump.
      • I'd rather have a manual choke than an automatic choke, though.
      • An exquisite piece of workmanship, it is operated by a manual lever and recreates the sounds of the harp, harmonica and piccolo.
      • The traffic department will be using polarisers, cameras and manual machines.
      • Power is handled by a five-speed manual gearbox that is beefed up, along with the clutch - make that a very heavy clutch.
      • He says his company doesn't even sell manual faucets anymore.
      • He cursed to himself, and taking up the manual controls, he fired at one of the fighters with his secondary lasers.
      • At just $1 more than the most expensive manual brushes, they figured many consumers would trade up.
      • If automatic valves are used, they should be controlled from a central location and be easy to override with manual controls.
      • It can change gear manually in fractions of a second whether using the manual gear lever or F1-style paddles on the steering wheel.
      • If you get tired of the automatic, you can switch over to a motor-racing derived manual system operated by paddles located behind the steering wheel.
      • Even manual machines hold their own, and two companies - Olympia and Olivetti - still make them.
      • For those with manual cameras f stops of f16 or f22 will achieve the best front to back sharpness or depth of field.
      • Their fire engine was a wooden wagon with a manual pump.
      • Indeed, a highly motivated mother may be able to do well with only a manual pump.
      Synonyms
      hand-operated, hand, non-automatic
    2. 1.2attributive Using or working with the hands.
      a manual labourer
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In summer, many manual laborers take their tops off because they get sweaty, or like to saunter along the sidewalks topless.
      • In the wilderness, elite men like Roosevelt no longer donned the business suits that separated them from manual laborers.
      • All things being equal the manual labourer will get a slight preference from me because he'll be tougher and stronger and less prone to injury.
      • It is highly unlikely for the family of high-ranking party officers to work as a manual laborer or miner, for example.
      • His poems reflect the experience of manual laborers and the union men and women who built the United States.
      • Some work as manual laborers while others work as farmers, especially when the fishing is bad.
      • They tried to supplement their income by hiring themselves out as day laborers, textile workers or manual laborers.
      • I am not your typical unskilled manual labourer.
      • Asian manual laborers who came to the United States in the nineteenth century were overwhelmingly male.
      • People working indoors do not get the sun exposure that their ancestors got as farmers and manual laborers.
      • These immigrants have come from positions ranging from low-level bureaucrats to manual laborers.
      • But today, the computer can actually make a better examination than a manual physician.
      • As a manual laborer, he wonders how can he ever feel useful again.
      • He became a manual laborer and later a postal worker, a position that he retained until his retirement.
      • If slave conditions need to change, human labour, needs and feelings of manual workers need to be respected.
      • Many of them work as unskilled manual laborers, which confines them to low social and economic status.
      • That will mean a harsh deal for manual workers who can't physically work beyond 60 or 65.
      • They have tried to present the different facets of the former Pope's life as a manual labourer, poet, thespian and footballer.
      • These manual laborers, long accustomed to toiling in the fields, are good workers.
      • His glasses gave him an intellectual appearance, but his build and physical presence were more like a manual laborer.
      Synonyms
      hand-operated, hand, non-automatic
noun ˈmanjʊ(ə)lˈmænjə(wə)l
  • 1A book giving instructions or information.

    a computer manual
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lisa's collection consisted mostly of some science fiction and fantasy, comic books, and computer manuals of varying sorts.
    • We also replaced very detailed regulations and manuals with less specific instructions and policy directives.
    • A sand reference guide, also part of the manual, provides all information you need to set up each interface type.
    • The book is an instruction manual for merchants in how to calculate profit and loss.
    • What is going through my head, is that this guy is reading the instructions directly from the manual, which I can now recite by rote.
    • Legal and economic literature is arranged next to history books and computer manuals.
    • Instructors teach from the instruction and safety manuals the company provides with its equipment.
    • Caregivers generally much prefer hands-on training to reading and following instructions in a user manual.
    • Card tables covered with computer manuals, cell phone booklets and how-to guides compete for space on the sidewalk.
    • It's a small office, with books and technical manuals, a computer, a desk and a small window.
    • Workers should also read the instruction manuals for computer terminals and be familiar with their operation, he said.
    • He wrote his first book, a training manual called Inside the Cyclist.
    • Originally the company printed computer manuals but then moved into peripherals such as cables and leads - and then packaging.
    • He said the manuals contained information on high-grade explosives and pipe bombs.
    • Reading most occult books these days is like flipping through a computer manual.
    • It's a book, about the same size as the instruction manual.
    • There are no text books or manuals to refer to when you have a terminal illness.
    • This shop now has a wonderful stock of gifts, souvenirs, music books, songbooks and instrument manuals.
    • It's fairly simple, just download it and follow the instructions in the manual to install it, then configure a directory for it to serve.
    • You may even have some of them partly written already in your instruction manuals or installation guides, etc.
    Synonyms
    handbook, set of instructions, instructions, instruction book, guide, companion, reference book, ABC, guidebook
    Latin vade mecum
    informal bible
    rare enchiridion
    1. 1.1historical (in the Christian Church) a book of the forms to be used by priests in the administration of the sacraments.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This was used as church manual and is significant because of its early age and quoting other books of the Bible.
  • 2A vehicle with manual transmission.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both performed well although, as usual, the manual felt the most responsive while the kickdown on the auto lacked punch.
    • On the road the manual was well behaved and although it lacked a little in the power department, it was apt enough.
    • DCAM is a hybrid design which borrows freely from conventional automatics and servo-shifted manuals.
    • After I got the hang of the gearshift it was easier than a manual.
    • The list of available transmission options for Clio III is the same as for Modus and includes a six speed manual on the most powerful dCi 106.
    • The auto coupe's 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds is just a tenth slower than the manual's.
    • All prices here are for manuals, but this Mercedes is better as an auto.
    • Not a problem, and I was feeling pretty sober, even if the car, being a manual, was something I hadn't driven before.
    • At any rate, ZF has a full stable of automatics, manuals and even the CVTs to serve nearly any niche.
    • The firmer suspension and sharper steering gives a ride that actually made me feel more a part of the car - something that I normally associate with manuals.
    • It meant that I could drive both automatics and manuals.
    • The original Thunderbird that inspired this model, sold from '55 to '57 was a manual after all.
    • But first out is the £7,953 1.3-litre five-speed manual which went on sale this week.
    • ‘He said he was unfamiliar with the car and normally drove a manual,’ said counsel.
  • 3An organ keyboard played with the hands not the feet.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The BX - 3 has dual manuals with 61 keys each, full polyphony and a very natural feel.
    • The same format was often imitated at the organ, the pedal taking the bass and the manuals the treble lines.
    • The ostinato in the manuals is also regular, until it moves at the end of bar 27.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French manuel, from (and later assimilated to) Latin manualis, from manus 'hand'.

  • manage from mid 16th century:

    Managers now manage businesses, but the first things to be managed were horses. The earliest sense of manage in English was ‘to handle or train a horse’, or put it through the exercises of the manège (mid 17th century). This French word, used in English to mean ‘an area in which horses and riders are trained’ and ‘horsemanship’, is at root the same word as manage—both go back through Italian to Latin manus ‘hand’, the source also of manacles (Middle English) which restrain your hands; manicure (late 19th century) care of your hands; manipulate (early 19th century) to handle something; manner; manoeuvre; manual (Late Middle English) either done with your hands or a handbook; and manuscript (late 16th century) something written by hand.

Rhymes

annual, biannual, Emanuel, Emmanuel
 
 

Definition of manual in US English:

manual

adjectiveˈmænjə(wə)lˈmanyə(wə)l
  • 1Relating to or done with the hands.

    manual dexterity
    manual hauling of boats along the towpath
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After my five seconds of philosophizing, the next thing I noticed was my rapid loss of manual dexterity.
    • And who has good manual dexterity and coordination first thing in the morning?
    • This window provides manual control of the telescope and any attached peripherals, such as a filter wheel or dome control.
    • Response rates were lower in women with manual occupations and from ethnic minorities but did not differ by type of delivery, type of pain relief, parity, or age.
    • Not one critic, however, diminished the incredible manual dexterity needed to create them.
    • They will tell her she is lying and they know that he does manual labour!
    • ‘Many associated them with big beard men working in manual occupations,’ he said.
    • Loss of abilities related to manual dexterity may affect work performance and may threaten or end essential career options.
    • I'm not complaining; it's great to have such a ready supply of manual labour.
    • Persons who do not have the time or the manual dexterity for these duties will have to entrust them to a competent groomer.
    • For that dwindling portion of the population employed in manual labour, alternative work could be supplied.
    • The program ODS2 also supports the manual alignment of physical and genetic maps.
    • As for Peter the Great, he might also have been akin to Edward II insofar as he was not afraid to indulge in manual occupations.
    • Lana took manual control of the sensor grid's scan cycle and focused it on the ship.
    • His drones had been recalled and all of his cannons were on manual control with standby power.
    • And he did so with an enviable manual dexterity driven by a witty, incisive mind.
    • They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
    • It also heard that Bradford babies who died in their first year were more likely to have fathers in manual occupations than in other occupational groups.
    • Who would have thought that manual labouring could be so fun?
    • This gives rise to the first of the above definitions of dexterity as manual skill and neat-handedness.
    Synonyms
    done with one's hands, labouring, physical, blue-collar
    1. 1.1 (of a machine or device) worked by hand, not automatically or electronically.
      a manual typewriter
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If automatic valves are used, they should be controlled from a central location and be easy to override with manual controls.
      • A combination of automatic and manual controls produced a 61 percent savings on energy.
      • If you get tired of the automatic, you can switch over to a motor-racing derived manual system operated by paddles located behind the steering wheel.
      • Power is handled by a five-speed manual gearbox that is beefed up, along with the clutch - make that a very heavy clutch.
      • Indeed, a highly motivated mother may be able to do well with only a manual pump.
      • At just $1 more than the most expensive manual brushes, they figured many consumers would trade up.
      • Their fire engine was a wooden wagon with a manual pump.
      • He cursed to himself, and taking up the manual controls, he fired at one of the fighters with his secondary lasers.
      • I'd rather have a manual choke than an automatic choke, though.
      • Too often, high-efficiency light sources are connected to a manual switch.
      • For those with manual cameras f stops of f16 or f22 will achieve the best front to back sharpness or depth of field.
      • Even manual machines hold their own, and two companies - Olympia and Olivetti - still make them.
      • The traffic department will be using polarisers, cameras and manual machines.
      • Conrad used a propane burner under an old steel drum, an electric motor to turn mixing blades, and a manual pump.
      • A system operator can instruct a manual switch at anytime, load new software or reboot systems from this PC.
      • The SUAV must fly using autonomous or manual control to selected points.
      • There was a deliberate insertion of a manual valve rather than an automatic fail safe.
      • He says his company doesn't even sell manual faucets anymore.
      • It can change gear manually in fractions of a second whether using the manual gear lever or F1-style paddles on the steering wheel.
      • An exquisite piece of workmanship, it is operated by a manual lever and recreates the sounds of the harp, harmonica and piccolo.
      Synonyms
      hand-operated, hand, non-automatic
    2. 1.2attributive Using or working with the hands.
      a manual laborer
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am not your typical unskilled manual labourer.
      • It is highly unlikely for the family of high-ranking party officers to work as a manual laborer or miner, for example.
      • If slave conditions need to change, human labour, needs and feelings of manual workers need to be respected.
      • These manual laborers, long accustomed to toiling in the fields, are good workers.
      • People working indoors do not get the sun exposure that their ancestors got as farmers and manual laborers.
      • In summer, many manual laborers take their tops off because they get sweaty, or like to saunter along the sidewalks topless.
      • These immigrants have come from positions ranging from low-level bureaucrats to manual laborers.
      • They tried to supplement their income by hiring themselves out as day laborers, textile workers or manual laborers.
      • His poems reflect the experience of manual laborers and the union men and women who built the United States.
      • They have tried to present the different facets of the former Pope's life as a manual labourer, poet, thespian and footballer.
      • Asian manual laborers who came to the United States in the nineteenth century were overwhelmingly male.
      • In the wilderness, elite men like Roosevelt no longer donned the business suits that separated them from manual laborers.
      • Many of them work as unskilled manual laborers, which confines them to low social and economic status.
      • He became a manual laborer and later a postal worker, a position that he retained until his retirement.
      • All things being equal the manual labourer will get a slight preference from me because he'll be tougher and stronger and less prone to injury.
      • That will mean a harsh deal for manual workers who can't physically work beyond 60 or 65.
      • His glasses gave him an intellectual appearance, but his build and physical presence were more like a manual laborer.
      • As a manual laborer, he wonders how can he ever feel useful again.
      • Some work as manual laborers while others work as farmers, especially when the fishing is bad.
      • But today, the computer can actually make a better examination than a manual physician.
      Synonyms
      hand-operated, hand, non-automatic
nounˈmænjə(wə)lˈmanyə(wə)l
  • 1A book of instructions, especially for operating a machine or learning a subject; a handbook.

    a computer manual
    a training manual
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lisa's collection consisted mostly of some science fiction and fantasy, comic books, and computer manuals of varying sorts.
    • We also replaced very detailed regulations and manuals with less specific instructions and policy directives.
    • A sand reference guide, also part of the manual, provides all information you need to set up each interface type.
    • You may even have some of them partly written already in your instruction manuals or installation guides, etc.
    • Instructors teach from the instruction and safety manuals the company provides with its equipment.
    • It's a small office, with books and technical manuals, a computer, a desk and a small window.
    • Originally the company printed computer manuals but then moved into peripherals such as cables and leads - and then packaging.
    • The book is an instruction manual for merchants in how to calculate profit and loss.
    • Card tables covered with computer manuals, cell phone booklets and how-to guides compete for space on the sidewalk.
    • It's a book, about the same size as the instruction manual.
    • Caregivers generally much prefer hands-on training to reading and following instructions in a user manual.
    • What is going through my head, is that this guy is reading the instructions directly from the manual, which I can now recite by rote.
    • Workers should also read the instruction manuals for computer terminals and be familiar with their operation, he said.
    • There are no text books or manuals to refer to when you have a terminal illness.
    • It's fairly simple, just download it and follow the instructions in the manual to install it, then configure a directory for it to serve.
    • Reading most occult books these days is like flipping through a computer manual.
    • This shop now has a wonderful stock of gifts, souvenirs, music books, songbooks and instrument manuals.
    • He said the manuals contained information on high-grade explosives and pipe bombs.
    • He wrote his first book, a training manual called Inside the Cyclist.
    • Legal and economic literature is arranged next to history books and computer manuals.
    Synonyms
    handbook, set of instructions, instructions, instruction book, guide, companion, reference book, abc, guidebook
    1. 1.1 A small book.
      a pocket-sized manual of the artist's aphorisms
    2. 1.2historical A book of the forms to be used by priests in the administration of the sacraments.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This was used as church manual and is significant because of its early age and quoting other books of the Bible.
  • 2A vehicle with manual transmission.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It meant that I could drive both automatics and manuals.
    • The original Thunderbird that inspired this model, sold from '55 to '57 was a manual after all.
    • The auto coupe's 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds is just a tenth slower than the manual's.
    • But first out is the £7,953 1.3-litre five-speed manual which went on sale this week.
    • The list of available transmission options for Clio III is the same as for Modus and includes a six speed manual on the most powerful dCi 106.
    • The firmer suspension and sharper steering gives a ride that actually made me feel more a part of the car - something that I normally associate with manuals.
    • Both performed well although, as usual, the manual felt the most responsive while the kickdown on the auto lacked punch.
    • ‘He said he was unfamiliar with the car and normally drove a manual,’ said counsel.
    • At any rate, ZF has a full stable of automatics, manuals and even the CVTs to serve nearly any niche.
    • All prices here are for manuals, but this Mercedes is better as an auto.
    • On the road the manual was well behaved and although it lacked a little in the power department, it was apt enough.
    • DCAM is a hybrid design which borrows freely from conventional automatics and servo-shifted manuals.
    • Not a problem, and I was feeling pretty sober, even if the car, being a manual, was something I hadn't driven before.
    • After I got the hang of the gearshift it was easier than a manual.
  • 3An organ keyboard played with the hands.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The BX - 3 has dual manuals with 61 keys each, full polyphony and a very natural feel.
    • The ostinato in the manuals is also regular, until it moves at the end of bar 27.
    • The same format was often imitated at the organ, the pedal taking the bass and the manuals the treble lines.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French manuel, from (and later assimilated to) Latin manualis, from manus ‘hand’.

 
 
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