Manual may mean:
- Instructions
- User guide
- Owner's manual
- Instruction manual (gaming)
- Online help
- Unix manual - known as "man pages"
- Manual (music) - a keyboard, as for an organ
- Manual (band)
- A manual is a special kind of wheelie.
- Freestyle skateboarding tricks (balancing on two wheels)
- Manual transmission
- Done by hand, or not using machinery or electronics to fulfil a function
- Used or operated by hand.
Famous quotes containing the word manual:
“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If the accumulated wealth of the past generations is thus tainted,—no matter how much of it is offered to us,—we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it, and to put ourselves in primary relations with the soil and nature, and abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean, to take each of us bravely his part, with his own hands, in the manual labor of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)