Word Finder - manuals

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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

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Mechanical transmission which shifts gears by the action of the driver's hand on the gearstick or gear lever, rather than automatically; a manual gearbox.

Without manuals, dictionaries, and easy access to texts, we should go as far astray as any medieval chronicler.

We owe to him, too, some manuals used in his educational work; a grammar and works on rhetoric and dialectics.

They say in all the manuals I never should do this on the phone but you deserve to be the first to know.

Or maybe you all should consider making instruction manuals before dumping your duties and walking away.

He retained this position until 1517, wrote a Latin grammar, and other manuals for the use of his pupils, and in 1515 travelled in Italy with Ernest.

At a subsequent period the demand for instruction in the sacrificial science called into existence a still more practical set of manuals, the so-called Kalpa-sutras, or ceremonial rules, detailing, in succinct aphorisms, the approved course of sacrificial procedure, without reference to the supposed origin or import of the several rites.

An even more complete and minutely detailed view of the sacrificial system is no doubt obtained from the ceremonial manuals, the Kalpa-sutras; but it is just by the speculative discussions of the Brahmanasthe mystic significance and symbolical colouring with which they invest single rites - that we gain a real insight into the nature and gradual development of this truly stupendous system of ritual worship.

Oberlin published several manuals on archaeology and ancient geography, and made frequent excursions into different provinces of France to investigate antiquarian remains and study provincial dialects, the result appearing in Essai sur le patois Lorrain (1775); Dissertations sur les Minnesingers (1782-1789); and Observations concernant le patois et les mceurs des gens de la campagne (1791).

The study of Church history was next encouraged, and in August 1883 the pope addressed a letter to Cardinals de Luca, Pitra and HergenrOther, in which he made the remarkable concession that the Vatican archives and library might be placed at the disposal of persons qualified to compile manuals of history.

In 1847 he wrote his biographies of Simon, Lord Lovat, and of Duncan Forbes, and in 1849 prepared for Chambers's Series manuals of political and social economy and of emigration.

No system of doctrine and observance, no manuals containing authoritative rules of morality, were ever transmitted in documentary form.

As compilers of useful manuals may be mentioned also Joseph Szvorenyi, Zoltan Betithy, Alexander Imre, Paul Jambor, Ladislaus Nevy, John Kornyei and Joseph Szinnyei, junior.

His ascetic tendencies are exhibited in the Moralia and Regulae, ethical manuals for use in the world and the cloister respectively.

During more than forty years of academic activity he not only provided manuals of Latin and Greek grammar and many other text-books that long remained in use, but he also formed for Germany a welltrained class of learned teachers, who extended his influence throughout the land.

It may not, however, be out of place to call attention, in addition to literature already cited, to a few recent books, chiefly manuals, in several of which full lists of missionary books are given.

The names of the gods and the places of their worship were catalogued and classified, and manuals were devoted to the topography of mythological regions.

He got on so well that he was not only a useful helper to Reuchlin but anticipated the manuals of the great Hebraist by composing in 1501 the first Hebrew grammar in the European tongue.

To reach the masses, unfamiliar with Spanish, manuals of devotion and outlines of Christian doctrine were translated into the various native languages.

The Romans at this time had no manuals of philosophy or any philosophical writings in Latin apart from the poem of Lucretius and some unskilful productions by obscure Epicureans.

The only merits, therefore, which can be claimed for Cicero are that he invented a philosophical terminology for the Romans, and that he produced a series of manuals which from their beauty of style have had enduring influence upon mankind.

The doctors of the universities were too wedded to their antiquated manuals and methods, too satisfied with dullness, too proud of titles and diplomas, too anxious to preserve ecclesiastical discipline and to repress mental activity, for a genial spirit of humanism to spread freely.

He wrote, besides, biographies, catechisms and hymnals for children, manuals of religious verse, lectures and essays on Dante, &c.

The texts themselves have mostly become as correct as they can ever be, and manuals and bibliographies guide one to and through them, so that no one need go astray who takes the trouble to make use of the mechanism which is at his hand.

Dictionaries and manuals are the instruments of this industrial revolution.

The oldest, the Astesana, from Asti in Piedmont, is arranged as a kind of text-book of morality on a scholastic basis; later manuals are merely lists of questions and answers.

Colour, dress, attitude, grouping of figures are all dictated by traditional rules, set out in regular manuals.

Toshiba wanted to add 3D animations to the electronic manuals of all their portable PCs.

The Web site contains a number of BPA safety documents, notices and manuals, including anti doping policy, in Word format.

The best method is to use the type of plastic comb binders that you will have seen used for laboratory manuals.

These monastic manuals and compendiums of knowledge came to dominate the intellectual life of monastic institutions and gained an almost canonical status.

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Reading instructional manuals and visits to the local climbing wall also played a major part in learning.

Below are some of the more common questions asked about our dog training systems, which we address here and in the printed manuals.

The training covers both technical and personal development skills and the support products include technical manuals and marketing tools.

All the on-line manuals have vanished from the Abstract site and none of the old kit is mentioned at all!

Documents available here include WHO press releases, fact sheets, pandemic preparedness plans, diagnostic manuals, and links to relevant Web resources.

After four years he finds himself writing instruction manuals for a computer company.

Could simple job aids be used in place of lengthy workbooks and user manuals?

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For instance, the initial application may be user and training manuals but it can be used later to generate operations and maintenance manuals.

What manuals are available for helping me do photometry?

However, with many conventional approaches, the experience often requires a roomful of electronics and a stack of manuals to explain them.

According to Suidas and Strabo, he was the author of TEXvac pfT0pucai (rhetorical manuals) and of other works, which should perhaps be attributed to his younger namesake, surnamed Carion, the pupil of Theodorus of Gadara.

These manuals are also called Srauta-sutras, treating as they do, like the Brahmanas, of the Srauta rites - i.e.

We see from a statement of Cassiodorus that he furnished manuals for the quadrivium of the schools of the middle ages (the " quattuor matheseos disciplinae," as Boetius calls them) on arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy.

From Poisson's equations Archibald Smith deduced the formulae given in the Admiralty Manual for Deviations of the Compass (1st ed., 1862), a work which has formed the basis of numerous other manuals since published in Great Britain and other countries.

Most vehicle owner 's manuals remain silent on the point.

Newborn infants are not actually as scary as some parenting manuals may lead you to believe.

Some manuals require that all front facing children be placed in car seats using the uppermost slot for the harness straps.