Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective requiring hand manipulation for operation; not automatic or machine-driven. Opposite of
automatic orpowered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective operated by hand
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Examples
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Johannes Guttenberg's invention of movable type had paved the way to commercial book publication, but when you examine these volumes, with their elaborate woodcut illustrations, elegant initial letters and handsome typefaces, consider the vast time and labor that went into early printing on a hand-operated flat-bed press.
Four Centuries of Love and Suffering for the Word Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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It has a hand-operated Honda SportClutch, which we think is great — it enables the rider to experience manual clutch action with the advantage of no stalling when coming to a stop.
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Riggans came through with two outs in the fifth, hitting a pitch by R.A. Dickey (3-7) over the hand-operated scoreboard in left for his fifth homer of the season.
USATODAY.com 2008
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With $2 million they raised, they also restored the stadium's majestic, spearmint-green facade, rebuilt the grandstand roof in painstaking period detail, revitalized the hand-operated scoreboard, constructed a new (though antique in feel) press box, and installed memorabilia displays.
Keith Thomson: How America's Oldest Baseball Stadium Can Be Yours for $1 2010
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Past winners include women like Alexander Keenan (2009), who developed a hand-operated sanitizer and dreams to establish a nonprofit that creates health tests in impoverished countries, and Chikoti Mibenge (2006), whose mission is to help find a cure for AIDS.
Rachel Martin: Glamour's Top 10 College Women: The Future Is In Good Hands 2010
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Past winners include women like Alexander Keenan (2009), who developed a hand-operated sanitizer and dreams to establish a nonprofit that creates health tests in impoverished countries, and Chikoti Mibenge (2006), whose mission is to help find a cure for AIDS.
Rachel Martin: Glamour's Top 10 College Women (VIDEO): The Future Is In Good Hands 2010
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The tools include a dry towel, a suction bulb and a hand-operated bag-and-mask resuscitator.
International Helping Babies Breathe course teaches newborn resuscitation 2010
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Doidge flies using a special, hand-operated rudder.
Aerobility, UK Charity, Helps The Disabled Get In The Cockpit 2010
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When was the last time, if ever, you visited the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue, an 1885 landmark and art colony complete with a hand-operated elevator and the motto "All Passes - Art Alone Endures" emblazoned over doorways (obviously, from the days before Styrofoam, Dick Clark, zebra mussels, and other equally persistent substances)?
Victoria Lautman: Forget Jeff Koons: Try a Pomegranate... 2010
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Past winners include women like Alexander Keenan (2009), who developed a hand-operated sanitizer and dreams to establish a nonprofit that creates health tests in impoverished countries, and Chikoti Mibenge (2006), whose mission is to help find a cure for AIDS.
Rachel Martin: Glamour's Top 10 College Women (VIDEO): The Future Is In Good Hands 2010
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