What does "manually" mean?

1. (by hand) using your hands to do a physical task. 2. (human intervention) doing a task yourself on a computer or system instead of letting the software do it for you.

manually

adv.

US //ˈmænjuəɫi// UK //mˈænjuːəli// man·u·al·ly

1 by hand (adv.)
B1 Intermediate

using your hands to do a physical task.

performed by hand rather than by a machine or mechanical device.

Example

The old gate doesn't have a motor, so you have to open it manually.

Example

Before the factory was modernised, workers had to sort the raw materials manually, which was both time-consuming and physically exhausting.
- by hand
- physically
- automatically
- mechanically
2 human intervention (adv.)
B2 Upper Intermediate Computing

doing a task yourself on a computer or system instead of letting the software do it for you.

requiring human input or control as opposed to being handled by an automated computer system.

Example

The software didn't update itself, so I had to enter the data manually.

Example

The system administrator had to override the automated security protocol and manually reset the user permissions after the server crash.
- user controlled
- automatically
- programmatically

Origin

From manual + -ly.