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

Likewise, the layout of the rooms could change and because the AI would generate the video separately from the audio, the lips would need to be manually matched, frame by frame, to the pre-recorded voice tracks. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Scientists had to manually prep the mix, walk out of the room to execute the extrusion remotely, re-enter to configure the equipment for the rounding phase, and exit the room yet again. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

Data is also sometimes entered manually, which can lead to mistakes. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

The latter allows the chronograph to be reset to zero and restarted instantly with a single push of the flyback button at 4 o’clock, meaning the wearer doesn’t need to stop and reset the watch manually. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually