manually

English

Etymology

From manual +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

manually (not comparable)

1. By hand.

   stimulate someone manually

   manually operated machine

2. Using a human, as opposed to a computer.

   The student manually corrected several errors missed by the spell checker.

   • 2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN‎:

     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.

   • 2024 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business‎:

     Starbucks’ 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.

Derived terms

• intermanually
• manually pleasure
• nonmanually

Translations

by hand

Catalan: manualment (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 手动地 Dutch: manueel (nl), met de hand, handmatig (nl) Esperanto: mane (eo) Finnish: käsin (fi) French: manuellement (fr), à la main (fr) Galician: manualmente (gl), á man German: manuell (de) Ido: manuale (io) Italian: manualmente (it) Polish: ręcznie (pl) Portuguese: manualmente (pt), à mão (pt) Russian: вручну́ю (ru) (vručnúju) Spanish: a mano (es), manualmente Swedish: för hand (sv), manuell (sv) c, manuellt (sv) n, manuella (sv) pl