manual

• bespoke
• bespoken
• bible
• casebook
• compendium
• cookbook
• crafted
• custom-built
• custom-made
• dictionary
• enchiridion
• encyclopedia
• grammar
• guide
• guidebook
• hand-operated
• handbook
• handcrafted
• handmade
• handwrought
• homemade
• human
• lexicon
• man-made
• not automatic
• physical
• primer
• reader
• reference
• reference book
• schoolbook
• speller
• standard
• text
• textbook
• tract
• treatise
• vocabulary
• wordbook
• workbook

• automated
• automatic
• machined
• mass-produced

• noun
  1. A handbook.
  2. A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
  3. A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
  4. An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
  5. A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
  6. A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
  7. (by synecdoche) A vehicle with a manual transmission.
  8. A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
  9. Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
  10. Mechanical transmission which shifts gears by the action of the driver's hand on the gearstick or gear lever, rather than automatically; a manual gearbox.
• adjective
  1. Performed with the hands (of an activity).
  2. Operated by means of the hands (of a machine, device etc.).
  3. Performed by a human rather than a machine.

• He had to read the manual before assembling the furniture.
• The car comes with a manual transmission option.
• She prefers manual tasks over working with machines.
• The technician followed the manual to fix the system.
• A detailed manual was provided for the new software.

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magazine

magazines

quarto

pamphlet

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