MANUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manually mean? 

• MANUALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MANUALLY has 1 sense:

1. by hand

  Familiarity information: MANUALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By hand

Context example:

this car shifts manually

Pertainym:

manual (of or relating to the hands)

 Context examples 

If applied to concrete on the street or the walls of buildings, the harmless photodegradation products could be washed away by rain or wind, or manually cleaned off.

(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)

Teens manually using a cell phone doubled their odds of crashing.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

Their study also found that manually dialing, texting or browsing the web on a phone while driving doubled a teen’s crash risk.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)