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

Users will not need to manually migrate their existing conversations or start new chats. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026

Doctors inserted a breathing tube then began pressing down on her chest with two fingers to manually pump blood through her body. — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2026

Both have the same manually wound movement (the in-house CH 29-535 PS Q) with apertures for day/night, day, month, leap year, and moon phases, plus an instantaneous 30-minute counter and a small seconds subdial. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2026

The documentation stays connected without someone manually maintaining it. — Stefan Gogoll, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually