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

Previously, users seeking a new Gmail address had to create a new account and transfer their data manually through a complicated and fraught process that could disrupt integrations with third-party apps. —Dylan Butts, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2025

Ensuring that the right merchandise makes it to the right customer is crucial, but checking purchase orders manually is time consuming and subject to human error. —Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 26 Dec. 2025

Avoid typing these addresses manually. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025

Robb Mandelbaum To train it, UMD students fed 40,000 photographs of fires to the model—manually identifying the blazes in about 1,200 of these. —IEEE Spectrum, 24 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually