Manual
adjective
Done with the hands.
He has manual skills such as carpentry and plumbing.
Often appears as...
- manual labor
- manual work
noun
A book that gives instructions or information about something.
I had to read the manual before I could assemble the furniture.
Often appears as...
- operator's manual
- instruction manual
adjective
Requiring human control or operation.
We have a manual coffee grinder at home.
Often appears as...
- manual control
- manual operation
noun
A keyboard for a musical instrument.
The organ has two manuals for the hands and a pedal keyboard for the feet.
Often appears as...
- organ manual
- harpsichord manual
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Done with the hands.
He has manual skills such as carpentry and plumbing.
Often appears as...
- manual labor
- manual work
noun
A book that gives instructions or information about something.
I had to read the manual before I could assemble the furniture.
Often appears as...
- operator's manual
- instruction manual
adjective
Requiring human control or operation.
We have a manual coffee grinder at home.
Often appears as...
- manual control
- manual operation
noun
A keyboard for a musical instrument.
The organ has two manuals for the hands and a pedal keyboard for the feet.
Often appears as...
- organ manual
- harpsichord manual
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Effort
Emphasizes work done using physical strength, often associated with labor-intensive jobs.
She prefers manual labor like gardening to sitting in an office.
Pro Tip 2/2Skill Specific
Used when referring to tasks that need training and proficiency in physical tasks.
His manual dexterity was evident in his beautiful wood carvings.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Effort
Emphasizes work done using physical strength, often associated with labor-intensive jobs.
She prefers manual labor like gardening to sitting in an office.
Pro Tip 2/2Skill Specific
Used when referring to tasks that need training and proficiency in physical tasks.
His manual dexterity was evident in his beautiful wood carvings.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Effort
Emphasizes work done using physical strength, often associated with labor-intensive jobs.
She prefers manual labor like gardening to sitting in an office.
Pro Tip 2/2Skill Specific
Used when referring to tasks that need training and proficiency in physical tasks.
His manual dexterity was evident in his beautiful wood carvings.
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It's important to learn how cameras work with light to create an image, that way we'll know what's going on when it's time to capture a moment. There are three variables that determine if you're getting the right amount of light for the correct exposure. With a manual camera, we're able to change any of the variable ourselves.
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The ethical dilemma of...
minimize danger to others by not swerving, even if it means hitting the large object and sacrificing your life, or take the middle ground by hitting the SUV, which has a high passenger safety rating? So what should the self-driving car do? If we were driving that boxed in car in manual mode,
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if it's put in the right spot what's running knowledge of the animals is much more important than your actual knowledge of equipment because you've got a manual that you can open up and if you've got half a brain in your head you can work out what a piece of equipment does but with
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our language understanding systems they understand accents they understand nor in noisy environments so speech is another important thing a six-year-old child has manual dexterity good enough to do any task we ask a factory worker can do in a low-cost production region
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The brain may be able to...
these little spots, those are the cells that we've labeled in vitro, when they were in culture. But we could not stop here, of course. Do these cells also help a monkey to recover after a lesion? So for that, we trained monkeys to perform a manual dexterity task.
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The incredible...
And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction. In fact, to date, and this is something that frustrates me, we've always been limited by this need to manually push our wills into our tools -- like, manual, literally using our hands,
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What’s the difference...
in an effort to find support for his theory. While his three laws are still in use today, gravity replaced his theory of harmonics to explain the planets' motions. How did Kepler get part of it wrong? Well, we weren't handed a universal instruction manual.
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My stroke of insight PIPE...
We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here, right now,
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Birth of the Vibrator PIPE...
probably weren't that good at bringing women to orgasm when they were helping women come to orgasm their hands got tired like a lot of manual tasks that are difficult and possibly onerous it
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
in some very clear way that is convincing to people well like i said i think the it's it's very important that like the the algorithm be open sourced and that any manual uh adjustments be
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How to take a great...
It's important to learn how cameras work with light to create an image, that way we'll know what's going on when it's time to capture a moment. There are three variables that determine if you're getting the right amount of light for the correct exposure. With a manual camera, we're able to change any of the variable ourselves.
Video examples
The ethical dilemma of...
minimize danger to others by not swerving, even if it means hitting the large object and sacrificing your life, or take the middle ground by hitting the SUV, which has a high passenger safety rating? So what should the self-driving car do? If we were driving that boxed in car in manual mode,
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
if it's put in the right spot what's running knowledge of the animals is much more important than your actual knowledge of equipment because you've got a manual that you can open up and if you've got half a brain in your head you can work out what a piece of equipment does but with
Video examples
Making robots more like...
our language understanding systems they understand accents they understand nor in noisy environments so speech is another important thing a six-year-old child has manual dexterity good enough to do any task we ask a factory worker can do in a low-cost production region
Video examples
The brain may be able to...
these little spots, those are the cells that we've labeled in vitro, when they were in culture. But we could not stop here, of course. Do these cells also help a monkey to recover after a lesion? So for that, we trained monkeys to perform a manual dexterity task.
Video examples
The incredible...
And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction. In fact, to date, and this is something that frustrates me, we've always been limited by this need to manually push our wills into our tools -- like, manual, literally using our hands,
Video examples
What’s the difference...
in an effort to find support for his theory. While his three laws are still in use today, gravity replaced his theory of harmonics to explain the planets' motions. How did Kepler get part of it wrong? Well, we weren't handed a universal instruction manual.
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My stroke of insight PIPE...
We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here, right now,
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Birth of the Vibrator PIPE...
probably weren't that good at bringing women to orgasm when they were helping women come to orgasm their hands got tired like a lot of manual tasks that are difficult and possibly onerous it
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
in some very clear way that is convincing to people well like i said i think the it's it's very important that like the the algorithm be open sourced and that any manual uh adjustments be
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Alex Zanardi
Italian Driver
My wife has always been positive. In the hospital my brother-in-law was trying to prepare her for the worst, but she said, 'Hold on, I don't want to hear that. He'll be all right. I'm going to ring BMW now and order a car with manual controls because the first thing he'll want to do when he leaves hospital is drive.' She knew her husband!
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Heidi Roizen
American Businessman
I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking care of myself. Now I have a new attitude: You know when you're on an airplane and the manual tells you to put on your oxygen mask first and then help the person next to you? I feel the same way about my health.
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Shannon Sharpe
American Athlete
Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.
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Daniel Lubetzky
Mexican Businessman
We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
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Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don't need an instruction manual.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
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Flea
Australian Musician
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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Alice McDermott
American Writer
A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
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George Orwell
British Author
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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Alex Zanardi
Italian Driver
My wife has always been positive. In the hospital my brother-in-law was trying to prepare her for the worst, but she said, 'Hold on, I don't want to hear that. He'll be all right. I'm going to ring BMW now and order a car with manual controls because the first thing he'll want to do when he leaves hospital is drive.' She knew her husband!
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Heidi Roizen
American Businessman
I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking care of myself. Now I have a new attitude: You know when you're on an airplane and the manual tells you to put on your oxygen mask first and then help the person next to you? I feel the same way about my health.
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Shannon Sharpe
American Athlete
Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.
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Daniel Lubetzky
Mexican Businessman
We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
Quote examples
Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don't need an instruction manual.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
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Flea
Australian Musician
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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Alice McDermott
American Writer
A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
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George Orwell
British Author
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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