I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a manual/blue-collar worker (= someone who does physical work )
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Manual workers often live close to their workplace.
a training manual
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She has written a training manual for social workers.
an instruction book/manual
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The instruction manual for the camera is over 150 pages long.
manual dexterity
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Computer games can improve children’s manual dexterity .
manual occupations/blue-collar occupations (= jobs in which you work using your hands )
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People from manual occupations are most at risk of experiencing poverty.
manual work (= work done with your hands )
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Most of them were employed in manual work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
control
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In addition to ordinary manual control , for experienced cooks, the established instructions can be set into the oven's memory.
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Prior to 1971 the mixing was carried out under manual control by time-served master bakers controlling a team of operators.
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Most camcorders provide manual control options to allow you to do this.
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Many cleaners have a manual control , but in some cases the suction adjusts automatically to suit the surface.
dexterity
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This depends on the patient's eyesight, manual dexterity and willingness.
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It is all really a matter of manual dexterity and self-confidence.
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Many of these men would have been individuals of vision and creativity as well as manual dexterity .
gearbox
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The performance through the five-speed manual gearbox is impressive, and higher speed cruising is effortless and remarkably quiet.
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It would also have a manual gearbox .
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In terms of a classic manual gearbox , I think it is still unbeatable today.
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The manual gearboxes are derived from those fitted to the larger Renault 19 range.
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Automatic transmission is also standard-fit, except on the diesel, which has a six-speed manual gearbox .
job
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They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid, unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor.
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Relay assembly was a highly repetitive, manual job .
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Most had stay-at-home wives and manual jobs .
labor
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Those who reported they did heavy manual labor at work had a 52 percent reduction in risk.
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One effect of this sea change in the way the world works is the diminishing value of manual labor .
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Jack, though he had tended bar in his time, was not required to do manual labor .
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They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor .
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He got manufacturers to streamline processes and develop standard expectations for manual labor .
labour
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This is particularly so for those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour .
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Action with a scraper and wire brush, using manual labour , would give the desired result.
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Women are systematically excluded from top managerial and professional jobs, as well as from skilled manual labour .
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He devised a compromise: the most arduous manual labour was eliminated, while safeguarding jobs.
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No photographer has better described manual labour in the heavy industries, or the settlements in which these industries are sited.
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Workers who once did strenuous manual labour picking wood for the grinders now sit at computer terminals.
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The monk's daily routine was to be restored to one of manual labour , study and prayer in equal parts.
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At the second stage, consciousness became separated from practical action through the division of mental and manual labour .
labourers
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It was obvious from their colour that they were manual labourers .
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And jeans were originally made for manual labourers .
method
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What, in your view, are the advantages and disadvantages of computer mapping compared to manual methods ? 3.
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Energia told the crew to practise a manual method .
occupation
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Consistently, those elderly from the professional and managerial classes experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups.
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Social class 4 consists of semi-skilled manual occupations .
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Indeed, a few members of that institutional survivor of a feudal era, the House of Lords, pursue manual occupations .
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He had chosen 40 manual occupations .
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There are also specialized agencies that deal with nursing, catering and more manual occupations .
record
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He made a manual record and put it in the file.
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A comprehensive range of manual records and files is maintained by the various personnel sections in the organisation.
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A local microcomputer is like a manual record system which can be accessible to all levels of staff.
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Updating is easier if the information is contained on a word processor but manual records are adequate.
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The position with manual records is again more clear.
skill
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Previous evidence has shown that fluent braille involves a number of subsidiary perceptual, cognitive and manual skills .
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It would thus have been as applicable to a teacher, for example, as to a practitioner of any manual skill .
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And her own delicate manual skills could never be hampered by the customised membrane-thin spacesuits that she works in.
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We are also interested in extending their manual skills in the form of craft work related to aesthetic experiences.
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There is first of all his outstanding and delicate manual skill .
system
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The Edinburgh library staff would like to remind users that there are still books on loan under the old manual system .
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The online catalogue has exposed obstacles to effective retrieval which library and catalogue users have faced all along in previous manual systems .
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The summarising or listing of information extracted from any of these manual systems can be a lengthy procedure.
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Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system .
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Underwriters previously used a laborious manual system to assess risk, cross-referencing data from maps, spreadsheets and technical data.
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This does not compare with the ease of reference to actual original documentation in the manual system outlined earlier in this chapter.
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This meant the immediate computerization of existing manual systems .
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This project looks at the replacement of traditional electro-mechanical and manual systems for recording timekeeping and attendance by micro-processor based devices.
typewriter
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A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard.
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After all, the idea that quantity means quality is as outdated as a manual typewriter .
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He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter .
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The workers there were still using manual typewriters .
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The author works on a real actual finger-driven, manual typewriter .
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Somewhere in the whitewashed recesses of the building a secretary tapped in indecisive spurts on a manual typewriter .
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The one-dimensional man, whose life collapsed upon retirement, was as anachronistic as the manual typewriter .
work
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To class housework as manual work is thus to put it higher up the scale of job prestige.
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But the simple, routine, and often manual work was going away.
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At present, many continue to live at home, attending adult training centres, or employed in manual work .
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Intellectual work of design, conception and communication would be differentiated from manual work.
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She says he had a hard life: She says that it was manual work , and very hard.
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Hence there is less routine manual work to do and the relative proportion of white-collar workers within factories rises.
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Only about 4 percent of the sons in manual work had professional or managerial fathers, but 70 percent had working-class origins.
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Chapter 3 showed a general picture of a society moving away from the basis of male manual work .
worker
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Over 85% of the male population are or were manual workers .
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Even a vocal minority of skilled manual workers supported the ban.
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In the past, new technology has mainly displaced manual workers .
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As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers .
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The picture of the working population of West Ham emerging from these data is one dominated by unskilled male manual workers .
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Manufacturing industry has declined, whilst service industries, which employ a lower proportion of manual workers , have expanded.
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For example, Weber suggests that individual manual workers who are dissatisfied with their class situation may respond in a variety of ways.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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manual skills
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manual work
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The car has a five-speed manual transmission.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Demands for office staff to be sent home along with manual workers were refused.
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Measured in terms of earnings, the market situation of lower professionals is not substantially superior to that of skilled manual workers.
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The Edinburgh library staff would like to remind users that there are still books on loan under the old manual system.
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The gastric juice was collected by gentle manual aspiration during 135 minutes.
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Underwriters previously used a laborious manual system to assess risk, cross-referencing data from maps, spreadsheets and technical data.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comprehensive
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Naturally, comprehensive manuals are included.
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A very comprehensive manual , telephone help line and a full on-screen tutorial are all included in the price of the software.
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The comprehensive on-screen manual will teach novice users how to use the more commonly used features.
technical
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Ventura is an excellent package to use if you want to create long and fairly regular documents like technical manuals or books.
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She wanted technical manuals , instruction sheets.
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It should house the full complement of technical guides, manuals and publications.
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There were some medical books, two technical manuals for radiology equipment, and office supplies of the most benign sort.
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Technical Documentation: As aircraft become more sophisticated integrating many technologies, so the proliferation of technical manuals continues.
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Professional briefings in professional journals; Technical manuals Subject matter: Essential and specialist technical knowledge.
■ NOUN
computer
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Tina's lying on the bed in the main room, a computer manual propped against her belly.
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We found the computer manual and read half way through it the first night.
instruction
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I think perhaps you should have paid more attention to Chapter 85 in your instruction manual .
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How she found the instruction manual .
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Several basic procedures are included in the instruction manual supplied with the de Fonbrune microforge.
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But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
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The company provide a glossy instruction manual and a telephone support service to make sure your project is a success.
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There is little point in reproducing the instruction manual here.
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Probably the instruction manual for the first vacuum cleaner.
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Stewart and Jones have produced something extremely rare - a computer instruction manual written with verve, life and humour.
reference
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The manuals , they are generally quite helpful, although they are definitely reference manuals rather than text books.
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They will be documented in a substantial reference manual , the Guidelines for Text Encoding for Interchange.
training
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It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual .
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A regular follow-up servicing arrangement will be included as well as full training manuals .
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Staff of the Remote Sensing Group are preparing a new remote-sensing training manual for geologists in developing countries.
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The project went through lengthy development and field testing before the project teachers' guide and teacher training manual were published.
user
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This applies even if the change only affects a user manual .
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Package means software, user manual and all other items accompanying this Agreement.
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The ADC-10 comes from Pico Technology together with a 24-page user manual and software on disc.
■ VERB
read
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It pays to read the manuals .
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The reading of manuals , the understanding of instructions, and the filling out of forms have been the stated goals.
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Have fun, but if you want to stay sane, don't read the manual .
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And we can learn how to run the computer by reading the manual that came with it.
write
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Voice over Lawrence wrote the service manuals for the craft.
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Raskin wrote a literate manual that became a standard for the young industry.
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He still writes on Olympia manuals .
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Hardly any had written manuals for their work.
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The book has not been written as a manual for somebody who doesn't have some knowledge about chemometrics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a computer manual
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a training manual for teachers
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an instruction manual
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Before you try to use the camera, read the manual carefully.
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Consult your owner's manual for information on what oil to use and how often it should be changed.
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Leach has written many popular manuals on childcare.
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The instruction manuals that accompany new computer software are often difficult to understand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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It has since emerged that they were following an illegal manual , and that the plant was rarely inspected by the authorities.
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Several basic procedures are included in the instruction manual supplied with the de Fonbrune microforge.
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The 400-page tutorial and reference manual is daunting, but the program itself is easy to understand.
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The command structure of authority may be shown by an organisation chart, or may be documented in schedules or manuals.
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To make these changes, you must have a copy of your printer manual , and you must be cautious.
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We found the computer manual and read half way through it the first night.