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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

manually en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmænj(ʊ)əli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈmænj(u)əliː/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English manual Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English manually From manual + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) By hand.
    • manually operated machine
    • stimulate someone manually
  2. (not-comparable) Using a human, as opposed to a computer.
    • They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement. 2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN:
    • The student manually corrected several errors missed by the spell checker.
    • Starbucks’ store leadership have advised their employees on how to work around the outage manually, and the company will make sure everyone gets paid for all hours worked, according to Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson. 2024 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business:

Deriveds

manually pleasure · nonmanually · intermanually

Translations (23)

sv manuellt (by hand) · fi käsin (by hand) · gl manualmente (by hand) · sv manuell (by hand) · eo mane (by hand) · io manuale (by hand) · nl handmatig (by hand) · pt à mão (by hand) · cmn 手动地 (by hand) · ca manualment (by hand) · it manualmente (by hand) · pt manualmente (by hand) · es manualmente (by hand) · sv för hand (by hand) · de manuell (by hand) · fr à la main (by hand) · nl met de hand (by hand) · pl ręcznie (by hand) · nl manueel (by hand) · fr manuellement (by hand) · sv manuella (by hand) · ru вручну́ю (by hand) · gl á man (by hand)