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

At the Trishuli-3A tunnel, workers began manually opening the upper section of the passage, according to lawmaker Ram Neupane. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026

At the time, purchasing teams spent an extraordinary amount of effort exchanging emails, updating spreadsheets and manually tracking order status. — Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Installation doesn’t require crews to manually crawl along hundreds of miles of line. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

The advanced safety detector, which screens incoming messages for policy violations, must be manually enabled by users. — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually