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

During one project, for example, developers deployed application changes several times per week, while the company was collecting information about compliance manually in the end of each release process. — Ramachander Rao Thallada, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

More broadly, the industry has been shifting toward wearables that use continuous data tracking to identify possible health trends, reducing the need for users to manually enter information. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

Election clerks had to manually bring in the election results so that they could be uploaded. — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2026

That distinction matters when a task involves several actions that people normally perform manually. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually