manual
substantivoadjetivosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl//
- Estados Unidos//ˈmæn.j(u)əl//
- //ˈmæn(j)ʊwɐl//
Synonym of handbook.
substantivo
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Synonym of handbook.
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A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual?
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A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
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históricoAn old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
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A keyboard on an organ.
Etimologia
From Middle English manuel, from Old French manuel, from Late Latin manuāle (“handbook, manual”).
adjetivo
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Performed with the hands.
She gave a wild manual brush to her locks.
They will be alternately manual workers and officials, so that nobody will become a bureaucrat. Given the simplicity of administration, equality of pay, and the election and removability of public officers, there will be no risk of the formation of a parasitic caste of bureaucrats alienated from society.
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Operated by means of the hands.
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Performed by a human rather than a machine.
The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.
Etimologia
From Middle English manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manuālis, from manus (“hand”).
substantivo
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A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
Tom's transmission shop can fix both manuals and automatics.
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A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. A vehicle with a manual transmission.
I'm not used to automatics; I've always driven manuals.
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A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
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A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine. A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
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A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine. Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
do a manual
give someone a quick manual
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A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine. A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
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A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine. A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie – that is, sliding round when coming out of a trick, lifting two wheels off the ground and jumping with the board.
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Manual control or operation.
Put the controls to manual.
Leave the system on manual.
Formas
- plural
- manuals
- comparativo
- more manual
- superlativo
- most manual