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# manual

adjective; noun (a manual, manuals)

«manual» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Manual means done by hand or by a person's effort, not by a machine: «manual work». [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/#m3)

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

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «manual» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manual/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«manual» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/manual.html) on Mova free.