manual

Definitions

• A handbook.
• A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
• (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
• (Christianity) An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
• (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
• A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
• (by synecdoche) A vehicle with a manual transmission.
• A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
• (medicine) Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.