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

Kalani says her 51-person team manually reviews user accounts suspected of problem gambling. — ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2026

Historically, enterprise software applications have forced workers to search for information manually. — Tony Grout, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Rather than switching to Calendar and manually entering the details, Visual Intelligence may recognize the event information and give you an option to add it. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

In which cases are teams spending too much time manually processing information? — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manually

• annually