Word Finder - manual

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A handbook.

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A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

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The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual?

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A drill in the use of weapons, etc.

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An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.

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A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.

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A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.

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(by synecdoche) A vehicle with a manual transmission.

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A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.

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Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.

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do a manual

Manual labour was adopted at first as a means for students to defray their college expenses.

Miss Keller talks to herself absent-mindedly in the manual alphabet.

It is, however, in her daily life that one can best measure the delicacy of her senses and her manual skill.

In 1781 he followed this up with an introductory manual of Chemical Essays.

She took a plain sheet of white paper from her desk and proceeded with flying fingers to type the 14 names and addresses using an old manual typewriter.

The manual alphabet is that in use among all educated deaf people.

Note the use of the charset attribute for the Arabic manual.

The central and eastern peoples have considerable manual dexterity.

If there were magic words, they were stuck in the manual he never got.

This manual for the middle ages arranged the rise and fall of e mpires with convincing exactness.

Can your notes comprise a user manual?

You must have adobe acrobat installed to read the manual.

New speed manual cuts add-on personal darker than the have helped to.

This course explains everything you need to know about basic manual double entry bookkeeping.

The movement is the best 3 register chronograph manual winding movement made, the Valjoux 72.

Try using manual circuit breakers to cut power to the fuel flow.

To the delight of gossip columnists, she issued each wedding guest with an etiquette manual.

Illustrated bilingual manual on propagation of threatened conifers in Vietnam.

Revise the Coaching Manual, which will include golf croquet.

The lack of fine manual dexterity can also frustrate a small person.

The manual is intended to educate the educator rather than train the educator.

Many injuries result from repeated exposure to manual handling operations.

Both new engines come with a six-speed manual gearbox.

The lads first manual guillotine, they want to try all of them on your own!

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It is principally a manual for those that enjoy this rural idyll and have the luck to live in the country.

All manual models feature a safety interlock to ensure operation cannot commence with the loading doors open.

This is undoubtedly the best manual wheatgrass juicer in our range.

Check out the online manual pages (man lint) for complete details of lint.

For help on enabling graphics printing please consult the printer manual.

There will not be a printed manual for the initial releases of PIMS.

You have to consult the motherboard 's manual to find out how to set the jumper.

When Miss Keller puts her work in typewritten form, she cannot refer to it again unless some one reads it to her by means of the manual alphabet.

The treatise De cursibus ecclesiasticis, discovered in 1853, is a liturgical manual for determining the hour of divers nocturnal offices by the position of the stars.

Moreover, the nature of the fertility of the meadow-lands is such as to require little manual labour, and other industrial means of subsistence have hardly yet come into existence.

Wide attention was attracted to Swedish educational methods principally by the introduction of the system of Sloyd (slojd), initiated at the Naas seminary near Gothenburg, and concerned with the teaching of manual occupations, both for boys and for girls.

Laymen do not use the Breviary as a manual of devotion to any great extent.

He wrote a chronicle of the monastery and several biographies - the life of Gerhard Groot, of Florentius Radewyn, of a Flemish lady St Louise, of Groot's original disciples; a number of tracts on the monastic life - The Monk's Alphabet, The Discipline of Cloisters, A Dialogue of Novices, The Life of the Good Monk, The Monk's Epitaph, Sermons to Novices, Sermons to Monks, The Solitary Life, On Silence, On Poverty, Humility and Patience; two tracts for young people - A Manual of Doctrine for the Young, and A Manual for Children; and books for edification - On True Compunction, The Garden of Roses, The Valley of Lilies, The Consolation of the Poor and the Sick, The Faithful Dispenser, The Soul's Soliloquy, The Hospital of the Poor.

In his words it was intended "to insure a more natural union between intellectual and manual labour than now exists; to combine the thinker and the worker, as far as possible, in the same individual; to guarantee the highest mental freedom by providing all with labour adapted to their tastes and talents, and securing to them the fruits of their industry; to do away with the necessity of menial services by opening the benefits of education and the profits of labour to all; and thus to prepare a society of liberal, intelligent and cultivated persons whose relations with each other would permit a more simple and wholesome life than can be led amidst the pressure of our competitive institutions."

He prepared his Medulla Theologiae, a manual of Calvinistic doctrine, for his students.

As a revenue payer he is not so satisfactory, his want of industry and the pride which looks upon manual labour as degrading making him but a poor husbandman.

Manual labour was prerogative.

Furthermore, children past 15 years of age who have completed the grammar school .course but are not regularly and lawfully employed at some useful occupation must attend a high school or a manual training school until 17 years of age.

The state will duplicate any yearly sum between $250 and $5000 which a school district may raise to maintain a school or courses of manual training.

In addition to the regular public schools, the state maintains a normal and a model school at Trenton, a normal school at Montclair (opened 1908), the Farnum Preparatory School at Beverly, a Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth at Bordentown, and an agricultural college and experiment station, maintained in connexion with Rutgers College, at New Brunswick.

With the continuations of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, and the Latin manual which Cassiodorus had woven from them (the Historia tripartita), it formed the body of Church history during all the middle ages.

Papebroch's criticisms of the chronicle of St Denis, Mabillon prepared this manual for the testing of medieval documents.

But the decrease lies mainly in the number of agricultural labourers; the number of farmers is not notably affected, and the increasing substitution of machinery for manual labour must be taken into consideration.

Previous to the Education Act 1902, county councils had certain optional powers under the Technical Instruction Acts to supply or aid the supply of technical or manual instruction.

His theory that manual labour should form part of the scholar's life was checked by the personal discovery that hard labour in the fields meant poor work in the study.