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manual Adjective

— If something is manual, it is done with the hands or through physical work. Unskilled manual workers are the most likely to lose their job when the economy changes. One quarter of the accidents at work arise from manual lifting, handling and carrying. — Manual dexterity, detergents, etc. are for or related to hands. Video games increase your manual dexterity and hand to eye co-ordination.

manual Noun

— A manual is a book of instructions. I need to fix this machine, but I can't find the manual.

manual

— noun a small handbook — adjective of or relating to the hands manual dexterity — adjective doing or requiring physical work manual labor manual laborer — adjective requiring human effort a manual transmission — noun (= manual of arms) (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle

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Simple sentences

Maria read the entire operation manual of 321 pages without stopping.

Can you operate a manual transmission?

It's your first time doing this kind of work. You should follow the manual exactly until you get more experience.

Efficient machinery replaced manual labor.

Can you drive a manual transmission?

For safety purposes, please make sure to read the instruction manual before using this product.

Can you drive manual?

Can you drive a car with manual transmission?

Use the manual override.

She used the manual override.

If I'd only taken the time to read the instruction manual!

He did hard manual labor through the day.

You can download the instruction manual for the heat exchanger here.

Before using this product, carefully read this manual and the additional information in the expanded version of this manual available at our Web site.

You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment.

Tom is very skilled in manual labor.

Tom is very skilled at manual labor.

Have you read the manual?

Have you ever driven manual?

I don't need the user manual.

Playing the piano requires manual dexterity.

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I thought manual laborers had steady nerves.

You'll find the Senate manual in here.

It's an engineer's manual.

Why, for heaven's sake, Aren't you Fuzzy Oldhammer I went to manual training school with?

Now. get this neither you nor any man is going to make me do manual labor and that's final.

Now, ahem, Sergeant Shattuck will take you in the manual of arms.

Maybe he didn't write the manual, but you can bet he can recite it backwards!

And I won't insist that he read the Marine Corps manual.

I know the Marine manual as well as anyone, even as well as you.

The manual says that's supposed to stop hysterics.

As it happens, the army's already prepared a manual based on some actual experience in real fighting.

I became a pleasant good shot and with good cause, for my constant hard manual labor gave me a most voracious appetite.

First, In The Name Of Your Principal, Mr. Warneke, I Want To Welcome You Back To North Manual. Aw!

Quick, the manual control.

It was a complete manual process.

It was never designed for manual operation in the first place.

This is a manual from the German espionage school.

Now, Sergeant Shattuck will take you in the manual of arms. That is, by numbers.

There is nothing one does except according to the military manual.

Now look, the manual says that's supposed to stop hysterics. It doesn't say a word about getting slapped back.

In case you forgot the manual, you're responsible for this military prisoner until you dump her into the lap of civilian authorities.

The officers in your party did manual labor?

My officers will not do manual labor.

I will also bring along the humor manual.

Like, is there an instruction manual?

Is there a manual?

Do you have the manual?

I know you have the manual, Patrick.

Switch to manual and cut the power!

Step. Force manual. Pull.

Marching manual arms.

Now look, the manual says that's supposed to stop hysterics.

No officers will do manual labor.

News and current affairs

In Central and Eastern Europe, Roma are often unfairly placed in these special schools, which provide sub-par education that all but guarantees a life of poverty and manual labor.

Our Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has 886 pages of such illnesses.

Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs.

Thus, the income of doctors and lawyers used to be about five times higher than that of manual workers, not ten times or more, as they are today.

In 2011, the National Research Council and the US Federal Judicial Center issued the 1,016-page third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.

Furthermore, the manual mentions risk communication only briefly, in the context of medical testimony.

In a world of asymmetric threats, we should follow the US defense department's field manual: in counterinsurgency, politics require primacy.

When the offspring of manual workers imported from countries such as Turkey and Morocco in the 1960's began to form large Muslim minorities in European cities, tensions rose in working-class neighborhoods.

This changed dramatically with the publication in 1994 of DSM IV (the manual of psychiatric diagnosis widely used around the world).

With over a million copies in print, the manual is known as the bible of American psychiatry; certainly it is an invoked chapter and verse in schools, prisons, courts, and by mental-health professionals around the world.

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