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manual | palmar |

As a noun manual

is manual (booklet).

As a proper noun palmar is

.

manual

English

(wikipedia manual)

Alternative forms

* manuall (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) manuel, from

Noun

(en noun)
  • A handbook.
  • A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine.
  • (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
  • A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
  • (by synecdoche) A vehicle with a manual transmission.
  • A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal foce.
  • Synonyms
    * handbook
    Derived terms
    * reference manual * instruction manual * user manual * user's manual * owners manual * owner's manual

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) manuel, manual, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Performed with the hands (of an activity).
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • She gave a wild manual brush to her locks.
  • Operated by means of the hands (of a machine, device etc.).
  • Synonyms
    *
    Antonyms
    * automatic
    Derived terms
    * manually
    Coordinate terms
    * , relating to the mouth * , relating to the foot

    Anagrams

    * ----

    palmar

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (anatomy, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, May 20, Jack Clark, Touch of Death, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage="A latent print on the palmar surface of our hands and the plantar surfaces of our foot is a scan that is entirely different from the scan on the rest of our bodies. }}
  • (anatomy, and, medicine) In the direction of the palm
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, John Gray Seiler, Essentials of Hand Surgery citation
  • , passage= The long and ring superficialis tendons lie more palmar than the index and small.}}
  • (zoology) Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.
  • Antonyms

    * (toward the palmar surface) dorsal

    Hypernyms

    * volar

    See also

    * plantar * ventral