Manual in english
pronunciation: mænjuəl part of speech: noun, adjective
manual1 = handbook ; manual ; textbook [text book] ; code book ; training manual.
Example: Function key <F3> provides a handbook to the database.Example: It is hoped that a new ISDS manual and guidelines for bibliographic description will be published in 1986.Example: A textbook is a didactic document setting out basic knowledge of an art, science or technique.Example: When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts the name in his code book, and taps it out on his keyboard.Example: Training manuals and support services, such as the Help Desk, are a particular feature of the BLAISE information retrieval services.more:
» caso de manual, un = textbook case, a .
Example: Omarska also provides a textbook case of unlawful confinement, a war crime.» manual básico = primer .
Example: It is quite common for document titles to provide an indication of the level of presentation of their subject in the use of such terms as 'Introduction', 'Primer', 'Popular', 'Advanced'.» manual de aprendizaje = instruction book .
Example: In sport too authors' names can be important and so one finds instruction books on everything from archery to yachting being prepared for the mass market with authors who are popular household names on the cover.» manual de autoayuda = self-help manual .
Example: Most library use is for leisure reading or for helping solving immediate personal or life issues (e.g., travel guides, using a personal computer, writing a CV, self-help manuals).» Manual de Descripción de Archivos = Manual of Archival Description (MAD) .
Example: This article describes the Manual of Archival Description (MAD), which was the result of a cooperative venture financed by the Society of Archivists and the British Library Research and Development Department.» manual de estilo = style manual [Libro editado generalmente por una asociación u otro organismos en el que se detallan reglas relativas a la puntuación, modo de presentar las citas bibliográficas, todo tipo de notas y referencias, etc. que los escritores, editores, etc. deben seguir] ; style guideline .
Example: This was also true of style manuals in the same subject, which were checked to determine what would-be authors were being told to do. Example: Consistency is the key design principle for all online information, and style guidelines are the way to achieve that key design principle.» Manual de Estilo de Chicago = Chicago Manual of Style .
Example: This article reviews Microsoft's Bookshelf: a CD-ROM data base containing 10 important writing tools (Roget's 2: Electronic Thesaurus, American Heritage Dictionary, Chicago Manual of Style etc).» Manual de Estilo de la MLA, el = MLA Style Manual, the [Manual de Estilo de la Asociación de Lenguas Modernas americana. Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .
Example: This is an aid to producing properly sorted bibliographies in the format established in the MLA Style Manual.» manual de hojas sueltas = loose-leaf manual .
Example: This option should also be used for updates or supplements to loose-leaf manuals.» manual de lecturas recomendadas = reader ; course reader .
Example: Bright new copies of an unknown book naturally excite more attention than old 'readers' soiled from overuse. Example: The study also found that publishers have a generally informal approach to granting permission for use of material in course readers.» manual de operaciones = operations manual .
Example: Documentation should include a user manual, an operations manual, and a detailed description of how the software works.» manual de preparación = training manual .
Example: Training manuals and support services, such as the Help Desk, are a particular feature of the BLAISE information retrieval services.» manual de procedimiento = rules of procedure .
Example: The Committee's rules of procedure emphasize the equality of the institutions, by providing that the chairmanship should rotate among the members every six months.» manual de referencia = reference manual ; reference guide .
Example: Ideally, this reference manual should provide step-by-step guidance for the non-technical, first-time user. Example: It is useful as an introduction for those without Internet access and as a quick reference guide.» manual de usuario = user manual .
Example: This means that it must be well documented, with for example user manuals, test data and guidance on setting up systems.» manual militar = military manual .
Example: The prohibition of using human shields is contained in numerous military manuals, many of which extend the prohibition to all civilians.» manual práctico = how-to-do-it book ; how-to-do-it manual ; instruction manual ; how-to book ; how-to manual .
Example: One of the aims of our library is to strengthen collection of 'how-to-do-it' books and programmed materials for individual instruction. Example: In my previous books on reference work I have been at pains to explain that they were not written as 'how-to-do-it' manuals. Example: In teaching session after teaching session, day after day, school tasks are administered through textbooks, instruction manuals, reference works, etc -- tomes teeming with problems for the pupils to solve. Example: How-to books which can cause harm are not advocated (including works on weapons, martial arts or hypnotism). Example: The selected genealogical materials held by the Arkansas University library which are listed include how-to manuals, bibliographies, dictionaries, and encyclopedias and guides.» manual técnico = technical book .
Example: In this article a specialist in the field of lubrication and cooling of industrial equipment discusses the lack of technical books devoted to this subject.manual2 = manual ; hand-operated ; manipulatory ; hand ; manually operated.
Example: These principles are being applied in an ever increasing variety of contexts, both manual and automated.Example: Hand-operated stabbing machines, which forced three stabbing needles simultaneously through the side of a pamphlet, ready for subsequent sewing by hand, appeared early in the century.Example: Thus in games, manipulatory skills are often exercised and extended, as for example in games that involve running, climbing or making objects -- bows and arrows, catapults, clothes for dolls, and so on.Example: There was besides vehement opposition to the machines from the hand compositors.Example: The final product was a simplified, manually operated information system.more:
» búsqueda manual = manual searching .
Example: Those inclined to scoff should reflect on the findings of a 1975 study of on-line users: 'Engineers, scientists, and researchers more readily accept the results of online literature searching than they do the results of manual searching' = Aquellos que sienten la inclinación de burlarse deberían reflejarse en los hallazgos de un estudio de 1975 sobre los usuarios conectados en línea: "Los ingenieros, científicos e investigadores aceptan más rápidamente los resultados de la búsqueda en línea de bibliografía especializada que los resultados de la búsqueda manual".» catalogación manual = manual cataloguing .
Example: The more important physical forms for the future are those which can most effectively be produced from computerised cataloguing systems; however manual cataloguing and indexing are still performed.» catálogo manual = manual catalogue .
Example: Computerized catalogues are usually much more up to date than the manual catalogues that they have replaced.» destreza manual = manual dexterity .
Example: There exists a relationship between increased video-game playing and improvements of eye-hand coordination, as well as manual dexterity, and reaction time.» enfocado manual = manual focus .
Example: When using manual focus, you are more likely to take out-of-focus shots.» fichero manual = manual file .
Example: Then due to the difficulty of altering a manual file and the pressure to catalog more new books faster, s/he is administratively enjoined from attending to such details.» forma manual = hand mould .
Example: Early-nineteenth-century hand-made paper, however, differed from that of the hand-press period on account both of new methods of bleaching, and of changes in the form of the hand mould.» herramienta manual = hand tool .
Example: They use a variety of hand and power tools, such as air hammers, nail guns, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, and surveying equipment.» impresión manual = hand-printing .
Example: Hand-printing was already an efficient means of mass-producing books.» indización manual = manual indexing .
Example: The more important physical forms for the future are those which can most effectively be produced from computerised cataloguing systems; however manual cataloguing and indexing are still performed.» lavado manual a presión = jet wash .
Example: The effect was similar to using a high-pressured jet wash on your car.» obrero manual = blue collar worker [Trabajador manual en oposición a trabajador que desempeña su trabajo sentado en un escritorio white collar worker (obrero no manual)] .
Example: If by being identified in the popular mind with a few gifted youngsters we compromise our ability to attract blue collar workers, for example, I think we'll have done ourselves irreparable harm.» papel verjurado manual = laid hand-made paper .
Example: Towards the end of the century a few makers exploited the antiquarian appeal of laid hand-made paper by reviving the single-faced laid mould.» período de la prensa manual, el = hand-press period, the [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .
Example: Many cheap books and most of the jobbing work of the earlier hand-press period have disappeared completely.» prensa manual = hand-press .
Example: Early-nineteenth-century hand-made paper, however, differed from that of the hand-press period on account both of new methods of bleaching, and of changes in the form of the hand mould.» taladro manual = hand drill .
Example: The punch may be a simple hand drill or it may be a much more elaborate electrically operated model.» tina manual = hand vat .
Example: The introduction of mouldmade paper in about 1910 reduced the production of real hand-made yet further, until by the 1950s there were no more than about a dozen hand vats at work in the whole of Europe.» trabajador manual = manual worker .
Example: Luckham and his co-workers found in 1964 that less than one in ten of the library users were skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled manual workers.» trabajo manual = manual labour .
Example: The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.» transmisión manual = manual transmission .
Example: The reverse gear on any car with a manual transmission is an incredibly simple piece of machinery.