MANUALとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈmæn(j)ʊwɐl/
• 韻: (英国発音) -ænjəl
• Homophone: Manuel (Anglicized pronunciation)
• ハイフネーション: man‧u‧al, man‧ual

語源 1

From 中期英語 manuel, from Old French manuel, from Late Latin manuāle (“handbook, manual”).

名詞

manual (plural manuals)

1. Synonym of handbook.

   Hypernyms: reference book, reference work

   Hyponyms: manual of style, MOS, style manual

2. A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

   The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual?

3. (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
4. (Christianity, historical) An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
5. (music) A keyboard on an organ.

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: マニュアル (manyuaru)

語源 2

From 中期英語 manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manuālis, from manus (“hand”).

形容詞

manual (comparative more manual, superlative most manual)

1. (of an activity) Performed with the hands.
   • 1897 October 16, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC:

     She gave a wild manual brush to her locks.

2. (of a machine, device etc.) Operated by means of the hands.
3. Performed by a human rather than a machine.

   The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.

同意語

• handly

反意語

• automatic

等位語

• aural, relating to the ear or the sense of hearing
• oral, relating to the mouth
• pedal, relating to the foot

派生語

関連する語

名詞

manual (countable and uncountable, plural manuals)

1. (countable) A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
   1. (automotive) A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.

      Antonym: automatic

      Tom's transmission shop can fix both manuals and automatics.

   2. (metonymically) A vehicle with a manual transmission.

      Antonym: automatic

      I'm not used to automatics; I've always driven manuals.

   3. (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
   4. A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
2. (countable) A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.
   1. (medicine, colloquial) Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.

      do a manual

      give someone a quick manual

   2. A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
   3. A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
      • 2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Boettger, editors, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level, 1st edition, Basel: Birkhauser, published 2007, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124:

        In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie – that is, sliding round when coming out of a trick, lifting two wheels off the ground and jumping with the board.

3. (uncountable) Manual control or operation.

   Put the controls to manual.

   Leave the system on manual.

同意語

• (automotive): stick shift / stick
• (automotive): standard transmission / standard

参考

(automotive):

• automatic
• semi-automatic
• manumatic

Further reading

• Manual on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Manual in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• Lauman, alumna