manually

adverb

ma·​nu·​al·​ly ˈman-yə-wə-lē 

-yə-lē, 

-yü-ə-lē

: by hand and not by machine : by manual methods

We have to enter the data manually.

Each winch drum is attached to gears which are turned manually by a large wheel mounted on the inboard side.

—Nancy Taylor Robson

Examples of manually in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Employees manually entered the data, validated pricing and products and then created orders in Oracle E Business Suite. — Mia Urman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Users could previously add this script manually to Copernicus Browser sessions by copying and pasting it using the custom visualization option under the default layers. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Investigators added that the aircraft’s data recorders showed its de-icing system repeatedly failed or was manually cycled on and off during 136 flights. — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

Finally, utilities should back up controller programs, log remote-access activity and practice restoring systems and operating manually. — William Akoto, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually