manualize

present singular third person manualizes · participle present manualizing · participle past manualized · past manualized

1. transitiveTo make manual

   There is no mystery, nothing intellectual. Even the calculator, in a sense, manualizes the intellectual and wristwatches are manual things.

   1998, Paul Dowling, The sociology of mathematics education: mathematical myths, pedagogic texts

2. transitiveTo turn a process, method, or body of knowledge into a manual

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   The editors asked me to talk about any ways in which TFT could be regarded as a manual. In my understanding, a manual is a material providing instructions on how to do something, like the first aid manual, or on how to use something, like the car owner's manual. Bearing this understanding in mind, I felt stuck, thinking it would be an inconsistency to manualize a process which is intended to minimize instruction.

   2022, Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Psychotherapy Manuals, page 551

3. intransitiveobsoleteTo use the hands