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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manual
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a manual/blue-collar worker (=someone who does physical work)
▪ Manual workers often live close to their workplace.
a training manual
▪ She has written a training manual for social workers.
an instruction book/manual
▪ The instruction manual for the camera is over 150 pages long.
manual dexterity
▪ Computer games can improve children’s manual dexterity.
manual occupations/blue-collar occupations (=jobs in which you work using your hands)
▪ People from manual occupations are most at risk of experiencing poverty.
manual work (=work done with your hands)
▪ Most of them were employed in manual work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
control
▪ In addition to ordinary manual control, for experienced cooks, the established instructions can be set into the oven's memory.
▪ Prior to 1971 the mixing was carried out under manual control by time-served master bakers controlling a team of operators.
▪ Most camcorders provide manual control options to allow you to do this.
▪ Many cleaners have a manual control, but in some cases the suction adjusts automatically to suit the surface.
dexterity
▪ This depends on the patient's eyesight, manual dexterity and willingness.
▪ It is all really a matter of manual dexterity and self-confidence.
▪ Many of these men would have been individuals of vision and creativity as well as manual dexterity.
gearbox
▪ The performance through the five-speed manual gearbox is impressive, and higher speed cruising is effortless and remarkably quiet.
▪ It would also have a manual gearbox.
▪ In terms of a classic manual gearbox, I think it is still unbeatable today.
▪ The manual gearboxes are derived from those fitted to the larger Renault 19 range.
▪ Automatic transmission is also standard-fit, except on the diesel, which has a six-speed manual gearbox.
job
▪ They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid, unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor.
▪ Relay assembly was a highly repetitive, manual job.
▪ Most had stay-at-home wives and manual jobs.
labor
▪ Those who reported they did heavy manual labor at work had a 52 percent reduction in risk.
▪ One effect of this sea change in the way the world works is the diminishing value of manual labor.
▪ Jack, though he had tended bar in his time, was not required to do manual labor.
▪ They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor.
▪ He got manufacturers to streamline processes and develop standard expectations for manual labor.
labour
▪ This is particularly so for those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour.
▪ Action with a scraper and wire brush, using manual labour, would give the desired result.
▪ Women are systematically excluded from top managerial and professional jobs, as well as from skilled manual labour.
▪ He devised a compromise: the most arduous manual labour was eliminated, while safeguarding jobs.
▪ No photographer has better described manual labour in the heavy industries, or the settlements in which these industries are sited.
▪ Workers who once did strenuous manual labour picking wood for the grinders now sit at computer terminals.
▪ The monk's daily routine was to be restored to one of manual labour, study and prayer in equal parts.
▪ At the second stage, consciousness became separated from practical action through the division of mental and manual labour.
labourers
▪ It was obvious from their colour that they were manual labourers.
▪ And jeans were originally made for manual labourers.
method
▪ What, in your view, are the advantages and disadvantages of computer mapping compared to manual methods? 3.
▪ Energia told the crew to practise a manual method.
occupation
▪ Consistently, those elderly from the professional and managerial classes experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups.
▪ Social class 4 consists of semi-skilled manual occupations.
▪ Indeed, a few members of that institutional survivor of a feudal era, the House of Lords, pursue manual occupations.
▪ He had chosen 40 manual occupations.
▪ There are also specialized agencies that deal with nursing, catering and more manual occupations.
record
▪ He made a manual record and put it in the file.
▪ A comprehensive range of manual records and files is maintained by the various personnel sections in the organisation.
▪ A local microcomputer is like a manual record system which can be accessible to all levels of staff.
▪ Updating is easier if the information is contained on a word processor but manual records are adequate.
▪ The position with manual records is again more clear.
skill
▪ Previous evidence has shown that fluent braille involves a number of subsidiary perceptual, cognitive and manual skills.
▪ It would thus have been as applicable to a teacher, for example, as to a practitioner of any manual skill.
▪ And her own delicate manual skills could never be hampered by the customised membrane-thin spacesuits that she works in.
▪ We are also interested in extending their manual skills in the form of craft work related to aesthetic experiences.
▪ There is first of all his outstanding and delicate manual skill.
system
▪ The Edinburgh library staff would like to remind users that there are still books on loan under the old manual system.
▪ The online catalogue has exposed obstacles to effective retrieval which library and catalogue users have faced all along in previous manual systems.
▪ The summarising or listing of information extracted from any of these manual systems can be a lengthy procedure.
▪ Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system.
▪ Underwriters previously used a laborious manual system to assess risk, cross-referencing data from maps, spreadsheets and technical data.
▪ This does not compare with the ease of reference to actual original documentation in the manual system outlined earlier in this chapter.
▪ This meant the immediate computerization of existing manual systems.
▪ This project looks at the replacement of traditional electro-mechanical and manual systems for recording timekeeping and attendance by micro-processor based devices.
typewriter
▪ A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard.
▪ After all, the idea that quantity means quality is as outdated as a manual typewriter.
▪ He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter.
▪ The workers there were still using manual typewriters.
▪ The author works on a real actual finger-driven, manual typewriter.
▪ Somewhere in the whitewashed recesses of the building a secretary tapped in indecisive spurts on a manual typewriter.
▪ The one-dimensional man, whose life collapsed upon retirement, was as anachronistic as the manual typewriter.
work
▪ To class housework as manual work is thus to put it higher up the scale of job prestige.
▪ But the simple, routine, and often manual work was going away.
▪ At present, many continue to live at home, attending adult training centres, or employed in manual work.
▪ Intellectual work of design, conception and communication would be differentiated from manual work.
▪ She says he had a hard life: She says that it was manual work, and very hard.
▪ Hence there is less routine manual work to do and the relative proportion of white-collar workers within factories rises.
▪ Only about 4 percent of the sons in manual work had professional or managerial fathers, but 70 percent had working-class origins.
▪ Chapter 3 showed a general picture of a society moving away from the basis of male manual work.
worker
▪ Over 85% of the male population are or were manual workers.
▪ Even a vocal minority of skilled manual workers supported the ban.
▪ In the past, new technology has mainly displaced manual workers.
▪ As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers.
▪ The picture of the working population of West Ham emerging from these data is one dominated by unskilled male manual workers.
▪ Manufacturing industry has declined, whilst service industries, which employ a lower proportion of manual workers, have expanded.
▪ For example, Weber suggests that individual manual workers who are dissatisfied with their class situation may respond in a variety of ways.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ manual skills
▪ manual work
▪ The car has a five-speed manual transmission.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Demands for office staff to be sent home along with manual workers were refused.
▪ Measured in terms of earnings, the market situation of lower professionals is not substantially superior to that of skilled manual workers.
▪ The Edinburgh library staff would like to remind users that there are still books on loan under the old manual system.
▪ The gastric juice was collected by gentle manual aspiration during 135 minutes.
▪ Underwriters previously used a laborious manual system to assess risk, cross-referencing data from maps, spreadsheets and technical data.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comprehensive
▪ Naturally, comprehensive manuals are included.
▪ A very comprehensive manual, telephone help line and a full on-screen tutorial are all included in the price of the software.
▪ The comprehensive on-screen manual will teach novice users how to use the more commonly used features.
technical
▪ Ventura is an excellent package to use if you want to create long and fairly regular documents like technical manuals or books.
▪ She wanted technical manuals, instruction sheets.
▪ It should house the full complement of technical guides, manuals and publications.
▪ There were some medical books, two technical manuals for radiology equipment, and office supplies of the most benign sort.
▪ Technical Documentation: As aircraft become more sophisticated integrating many technologies, so the proliferation of technical manuals continues.
▪ Professional briefings in professional journals; Technical manuals Subject matter: Essential and specialist technical knowledge.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ Tina's lying on the bed in the main room, a computer manual propped against her belly.
▪ We found the computer manual and read half way through it the first night.
instruction
▪ I think perhaps you should have paid more attention to Chapter 85 in your instruction manual.
▪ How she found the instruction manual.
▪ Several basic procedures are included in the instruction manual supplied with the de Fonbrune microforge.
▪ But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
▪ The company provide a glossy instruction manual and a telephone support service to make sure your project is a success.
▪ There is little point in reproducing the instruction manual here.
▪ Probably the instruction manual for the first vacuum cleaner.
▪ Stewart and Jones have produced something extremely rare - a computer instruction manual written with verve, life and humour.
reference
▪ The manuals, they are generally quite helpful, although they are definitely reference manuals rather than text books.
▪ They will be documented in a substantial reference manual, the Guidelines for Text Encoding for Interchange.
training
▪ It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual.
▪ A regular follow-up servicing arrangement will be included as well as full training manuals.
▪ Staff of the Remote Sensing Group are preparing a new remote-sensing training manual for geologists in developing countries.
▪ The project went through lengthy development and field testing before the project teachers' guide and teacher training manual were published.
user
▪ This applies even if the change only affects a user manual.
▪ Package means software, user manual and all other items accompanying this Agreement.
▪ The ADC-10 comes from Pico Technology together with a 24-page user manual and software on disc.
■ VERB
read
▪ It pays to read the manuals.
▪ The reading of manuals, the understanding of instructions, and the filling out of forms have been the stated goals.
▪ Have fun, but if you want to stay sane, don't read the manual.
▪ And we can learn how to run the computer by reading the manual that came with it.
write
▪ Voice over Lawrence wrote the service manuals for the craft.
▪ Raskin wrote a literate manual that became a standard for the young industry.
▪ He still writes on Olympia manuals.
▪ Hardly any had written manuals for their work.
▪ The book has not been written as a manual for somebody who doesn't have some knowledge about chemometrics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a computer manual
▪ a training manual for teachers
▪ an instruction manual
▪ Before you try to use the camera, read the manual carefully.
▪ Consult your owner's manual for information on what oil to use and how often it should be changed.
▪ Leach has written many popular manuals on childcare.
▪ The instruction manuals that accompany new computer software are often difficult to understand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
▪ He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
▪ It has since emerged that they were following an illegal manual, and that the plant was rarely inspected by the authorities.
▪ Several basic procedures are included in the instruction manual supplied with the de Fonbrune microforge.
▪ The 400-page tutorial and reference manual is daunting, but the program itself is easy to understand.
▪ The command structure of authority may be shown by an organisation chart, or may be documented in schedules or manuals.
▪ To make these changes, you must have a copy of your printer manual, and you must be cautious.
▪ We found the computer manual and read half way through it the first night.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manual

Manual \Man"u*al\, n. [Cf. F. manuel, LL. manuale. See Manual, a.]

  1. A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.

    This manual of laws, styled the Confessor's Laws.
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. (Mus.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
    --Moore (Encyc. of Music).

  3. (Mil.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).

Manual

Manual \Man"u*al\ (m[a^]n"[-u]*al), a. [OE. manuel, F. manuel, L. manualis, fr. manus hand; prob. akin to AS. mund hand, protection, OHG. munt, G. m["u]ndel a ward, vormund guardian, Icel. mund hand. Cf. Emancipate, Legerdemain, Maintain, Manage, Manner, Manure, Mound a hill.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the hand.

  2. Performed by a person using physical as contrasted with mental effort; as, manual labor.

  3. Done or made by the hand. In some contexts, contrasted with automatic or mechanical. ``Manual and ocular examination.''
    --Tatham.

    Manual exercise (Mil.) the exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms.

    Seal manual, the impression of a seal worn on the hand as a ring.

    Sign manual. See under Sign.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manual

c.1400, from Latin manualis "of or belonging to the hand; that can be thrown by hand," from manus "hand, strength, power over; armed force; handwriting," from PIE *man- (2) "hand" (cognates: Old Norse mund "hand," Old English mund "hand, protection, guardian," German Vormund "guardian," Greek mane "hand").

manual

early 15c., "service book used by a priest," from Old French manuel "handbook" (also "plow-handle"), from Late Latin manuale "case or cover of a book, handbook," noun use of neuter of Latin manualis (see manual (adj.)). Meaning "a concise handbook" of any sort is from 1530s.

Wiktionary
manual

Etymology 1 n. 1 A handbook. 2 A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine. 3 (context music English) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument. 4 A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator. 5 (context by synecdoche English) A vehicle with a manual transmission. 6 A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal foce. Etymology 2

a. 1 Performed with the hands (of an activity). 2 Operated by means of the hands (of a machine, device etc.).

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WordNet
manual

  1. n. a small handbook

  2. (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle [syn: manual of arms]

manual

  1. adj. of or relating to the hands; "manual dexterity"

  2. requiring human effort; "a manual transmission" [ant: automatic]

  3. doing or requiring physical work; "manual labor"; "manual laborer" [syn: manual(a)]

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Wikipedia
Manual

Manual may refer to:

Manual (music)

A manual is a musical keyboard designed to be played with the hands, on an instrument such as a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, or synthesizer. The term "manual" is used with regard to any hand keyboard on these instruments to distinguish it from the pedalboard, which is a keyboard that the organist plays with his or her feet. It is proper to use "manual" rather than "keyboard," then, when referring to the hand keyboards on any instrument that has a pedalboard.

Music written to be played only on the manuals (instead of using the pedals) can be designated by manualiter (first attested in 1511, but particularly common in the 17th and 18th centuries).

Manual (band)

Manual is the performing name of electronic musician, Jonas Munk, from Odense, Denmark. Manual's music is considered to be in the styles of ambient dream pop and indietronica. His sound tends to contain a mix of software synthesizers, guitars (sometimes sampled or heavily processed), and various digital signal processing effects. Mixing elements of pop, glitch, and indie music, Manual is compared to artists ranging from IDM artists, such as Boards of Canada, as well as shoegazer groups like My Bloody Valentine.

Munk's output as Manual is strongly associated with the aesthetic of Morr Music, the label that released his first two albums. He also is featured on the Morr Music compilation Blue Skied an' Clear, which was a Slowdive tribute.

In 2004 he joined the American label Darla. Simultaneously, Munk started a psych stoner band called Causa Sui, and they released their self-titled debut album in December 2005.

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Usage examples of "manual".

After two days of riding the wall, and time spent in the evening studying the ward-wall patrol manual that Maran had provided, his eyes tend to blur whenever he looks toward the chaos and whitened granite that prisons the Accursed Forest.

By associating various mathematical problems with his constructive exercises, the teacher can frequently cause the pupil to transfer in some degree his primary interest in manual training to the associated work in arithmetic.

The Archimage Binah had lived to an incredible age and wielded great magic even without a talisman, but she had left no manual of magecraft for her successor.

This manual conversation avoided any monitoring by Control through their mastoid critics.

A small console with two holographic panes was provided in case anything glitched the AS pilot and he needed manual control.

An Accidental Woman is meant to be neither a manual on paraplegia nor one on maple syrup production.

Still, the fact remains that Portia and her admirer said nothing that might not have been taken down by a shorthand reporter and printed in a manual for daily use in crowded drawing-rooms.

Paul studied the open desert, questing in his prescient memory, probing the mysterious allusions to thumpers and maker hooks in the Fremkit manual that had come with their escape pack.

That principle might be transferable to men, since manual stimulation of the nipples causes a prolactin surge in men as well as in nonlac-tating women.

And Punky, who had belonged to the managerial classes for more eons than he cared to remember, was slow to recognize any instrument used in the performance of manual labor.

It contained a gold organ with robot organist by Tiffany, a gold-tooled library with android librarian on library ladder, a Louis Quinze desk with android secretary before a manual memo-bead recorder, an American bar with robot bartender.

Sound became sound and he heard the android secretary tapping the manual bead-recorder at the Louis Quinze desk.

There were some medical books, two technical manuals for radiology equipment, and office supplies of the most benign sort.

It was all just as I remembered it: a couple of radiology manuals, some medical texts, paper clips, ballpoint pens, scratch pads.

Benjamin, retried after a career in the IDF, was currently engaged in writing a series of technical manuals for the army.