Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: manual
IPA transcription: [m'ænjuəl]
Pronunciations of manual
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: manual
    Meaning: a small handbook
Usage examples
  • He aimed the hissing bottle, fumbling for the manual valve.
  • There was a manual lever, which Chris must have used before.
  • He jockeyed the ship around by trial and error, studying the manual that was lying prominently on the control panel.
  • Possibly, therefore, because of their strong social ambitions, the manual workers in America more than elsewhere adopt a costume that is not sensible or sanitary.
  • Professor Stout, in his "Manual of Psychology," after discussing various ways of distinguishing sensations and images, arrives at a view which is a modification of Hume's.
  • This garment, like those worn by wealthy Chinese when in native costume, distinguished the rich or the nobility, who were not under the necessity of engaging in manual labor.
  • There is some reason to believe that in America great numbers of our people, perhaps even many manual laborers, would be better off if they bought simpler and less costly food.
  • Edison realized from the start that the true solution of this problem lay in the continuous treatment of the material, with the maximum employment of natural forces and the minimum of manual labor and generated power.
  • We have only further to suppose a considerable diffusion of Socialist opinions, and it may become infamous in the eyes of the majority to possess more property than some very small amount, or any income not earned by manual labour.
  • Here is a body of men relieved, at least in the higher stages of savagery, from the need of earning their livelihood by hard manual toil, and allowed, nay, expected and encouraged, to prosecute researches into the secret ways of nature.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Markup language, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording André Bessette, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Underground Electric Railways Company of London, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Compact Cassette, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Liturgy of the Hours, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 4chan, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Docklands Light Railway, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording BDSM, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mental disorder, License CC BY-SA 4.0