Meanings
- not comparableUsing a human, as opposed to a computer.
The student manually corrected several errors missed by the spell checker.
2 more examples
They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.
2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNNStarbucks’ store leadership have advised their employees on how to work around the outage manually, and the company will make sure everyone gets paid for all hours worked, according to Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson.
2024 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business
Origin
- Englishmanual
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishmanually
Translations
Catalan manualment
- manualmentby hand
Chinese Mandarin 手动地
- 手动地by hand
Dutch manueel, met de hand
- manueelby hand
- met de handby hand
- handmatigby hand
Esperanto mane
- maneby hand
Finnish käsin
- käsinby hand
French manuellement, à la main
- manuellementby hand
- à la mainby hand
German manuell
- manuellby hand
Italian manualmente
- manualmenteby hand
Polish ręcznie
- ręcznieby hand
Portuguese manualmente, à mão
- manualmenteby hand
- à mãoby hand
Russian вручну́ю
- вручну́ю (vručnúju)by hand
Spanish manualmente
- manualmenteby hand
Swedish för hand, manuell
- för handby hand
- manuellby hand
- manuelltby hand
- manuellaby hand
Cite this entry
manually. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manually
“manually.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manually. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “manually,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manually.
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