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

Fast-forward to today and some GPT-4o users are attempting to keep the model alive on their own, setting up a version of GPT-4o manually on their computers using the still-available API and the original GPT-4o to train it. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026

But don’t start manually scrubbing just yet. —Jessica Elliott, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026

Engineers and operators send coordinates and flight plans directly to the drones, with no need for a joystick or controller to manually maneuver the aircraft. —Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 6 Feb. 2026

If the low-voltage battery dies or is disabled, the doors may not unlock and must be operated manually from the inside. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually