Usually means: Instruction book for operating something.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. manual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. manual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. manual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. manual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. manual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Manual, manual: Wordnik
  7. manual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Manual, manual: Wiktionary
  9. manual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. manual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. manual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. manual: Dictionary.com
  13. manual (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. manual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Manual (band), Manual (music), Manual (musician), Manual (skateboard trick), Manual, The Manual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Manual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. manual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. manual: Rhymezone
  19. manual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. manual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. manual: Free Dictionary
  22. manual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Manual, manual: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. manual: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. manual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MANUAL: Artcyclopedia
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. manual: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. manual: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. manual: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. manual: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See manually as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Synonym of handbook.
noun:  A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
noun:  (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
noun:  (Christianity, historical) An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
adjective:  (of an activity) Performed with the hands.
adjective:  (of a machine, device etc.) Operated by means of the hands.
adjective:  Performed by a human rather than a machine.
noun:  (countable) A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
noun:  (automotive) A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
noun:  (metonymically) A vehicle with a manual transmission.
noun:  (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
noun:  A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
noun:  (countable) A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
noun:  A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
noun:  A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
noun:  (uncountable) Manual control or operation.
noun:  A male given name from Spanish: a rare spelling variant of Manuel, sometimes considered erroneous.

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