adv
Meaning 1
By hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- stimulate someone manually
- manually operated machine
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
manually
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmænj(ʊ)əli/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈmænj(u)əliː/
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CMU ARPABET: M AE1 N Y UW0 AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Using a human, as opposed to a computer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The student manually corrected several errors missed by the spell checker.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
by hand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- this car shifts manually
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: manualment — by hand
- Chinese Mandarin: 手动地 — by hand
- Dutch: manueel — by hand
- Dutch: met de hand — by hand
- Dutch: handmatig — by hand
- Esperanto: mane — by hand
- Finnish: käsin — by hand
- French: manuellement — by hand
- French: à la main — by hand
- Galician: manualmente — by hand
- Galician: á man — by hand
- German: manuell — by hand
- Ido: manuale — by hand
- Italian: manualmente — by hand
- Polish: ręcznie — by hand
- Portuguese: manualmente — by hand
- Portuguese: à mão — by hand
- Russian: вручну́ю (vručnúju) — by hand
- Spanish: a mano — by hand
- Spanish: manualmente — by hand
- Swedish: för hand — by hand
- Swedish: manuell — by hand
- Swedish: manuellt — by hand
- Swedish: manuella — by hand
Real reading context