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manualise

manualise is the alternative form of manualize.

Meaning of manualize

Verb

manualize (third-person singular simple present manualizes, present participle manualizing, simple past and past participle manualized)

  1. (transitive) To make manual
    • There is no mystery, nothing intellectual. Even the calculator, in a sense, manualizes the intellectual and wristwatches are manual things.1998, Paul Dowling, The sociology of mathematics education: mathematical myths, pedagogic texts
  2. (transitive) To turn a process, method, or body of knowledge into a manual
    • The editors asked me to talk about any ways in which TFT could be regarded as a manual. In my understanding, a manual is a material providing instructions on how to do something, like the first aid manual, or on how to use something, like the car owner's manual. Bearing this understanding in mind...2022, Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Psychotherapy Manuals, page 551
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To use the hands

Forms of manualise

third-person singular presentmanualises
present participlemanualising
past participlemanualised
pastmanualised

Origin of manualise

From manual + -ise.

Questions about manualise

What is manualise the alternative form of?
Manualise is the alternative form of manualize.

Words near manualise in the dictionary

  1. manual transmissions
  2. manual work
  3. manualette
  4. manualettes
  5. manualii
  6. manualise
  7. manualised
  8. manualises
  9. manualising
  10. manualism
  11. manualist

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