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

Physical exfoliation uses friction to manually remove dead skin cells. — Jenny Jin, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2026

Instead of a treasury analyst manually pulling payment data into a spreadsheet to spot trends, the tool surfaces patterns, opportunities and risks automatically, through dashboards and peer comparisons. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

Collecting and manually labeling examples that cover all these conditions is therefore difficult and expensive. — Bo Wang, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

When allocators and dispatchers are forced into firefighting mode, dispatchers face high cognitive load from having to manually juggle assignments under severe time constraints. — Justin Newell, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually