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

As such, those answers should always be checked and double-checked manually against the original sources. — Valentina Drofa, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Information is punched into the ‘Fruit Machine’, a piece of software so named because of the various colours on its visage, the programme into which the raw information from every ball is manually inputted. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Unlike a read receipt, which only fires when a message is manually opened, a delivery receipt triggers automatically—even if the incoming text is filtered straight to a spam folder. — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026

At the Trishuli-3A tunnel, workers began manually opening the upper section of the passage, according to lawmaker Ram Neupane. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually