different between magazine vs manual

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic ????????? pl (ma??zin), plural of ???????? (ma?zan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from ??????? (?azana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mæ???zi?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mæ???zin/, /?mæ??zin/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Hyphenation: mag?a?zine

Noun

magazine (plural magazines)

1. A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
3. An ammunition storehouse.
4. A chamber in a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
5. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
6. (dated) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
7. (dated) A city viewed as a marketing center.
8. (dated) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
9. (television) A collection of Teletext pages.
   • 1983, Channels of Communications (volume 3, page 41)

     Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

   • 1984, Telecommunications (volume 18, page 89)

     The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English magazine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?a.zin/

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (periodical publication)

   Synonyms: revue, périodique

Further reading

• “magazine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

English magazine

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (publication, especially the supplement of a newspaper)

   Synonym: rivista

Further reading

• magazine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. department store (store containing many departments)

   Synonym: loja de departamento

Romanian

Noun

magazine n pl

1. plural of magazin

English

Alternative forms

• manuall (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?man.j(?)?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mænj?(w?)l/
• Hyphenation: man?u?al, man?ual
• Homophone: Manuel (Anglicized pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Middle English manuel, from Old French manuel, from Late Latin manu?le (“handbook, manual”).

Noun

manual (plural manuals)

1. A handbook.
2. A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

3. (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
4. (Christianity, historical) An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.

Synonyms

• enchiridion
• handbook

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (manyuaru)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English manuel, from Anglo-Norman manuel, Old French manual, from Latin manu?lis, from manus (“hand”).

Adjective

manual (comparative more manual, superlative most manual)

1. (of an activity) Performed with the hands.
2. (of a machine, device etc.) Operated by means of the hands.
3. (technology) Performed by a human rather than a machine.

Synonyms

• handly

Antonyms

• automatic

Coordinate terms

• aural, relating to the ear or the sense of hearing
• oral, relating to the mouth
• pedal, relating to the foot

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

manual (countable and uncountable, plural manuals)

1. (countable) A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.
   1. (automotive) A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
   2. (by synecdoche) A vehicle with a manual transmission.

   3. (music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
   4. A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
2. (countable) A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.
   1. (medicine, colloquial) Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.

   2. A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
3. (uncountable) Manual control or operation.

   Put the controls to manual.

   Leave the system on manual.

Synonyms

• (automotive): stick shift / stick
• (automotive): standard transmission / standard

See also

(automotive):

• automatic
• semi-automatic
• manumatic

Translations

Further reading

• Manual on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Manual in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• alumna

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manu?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m?.nu?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma.nu?al/

Adjective

manual (masculine and feminine plural manuals)

1. manual

Derived terms

• manualment

Noun

manual m (plural manuals)

1. manual

Further reading

• “manual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “manual” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “manual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “manual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

manual c (singular definite manualen, plural indefinite manualer)

1. manual, a booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine

Inflection

Indonesian

Etymology

From English manual, from Anglo-Norman manuel, from Old French manual, from Latin manu?lis, from manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma?nu.al]
• Hyphenation: ma?nu?al

Noun

manual (first-person possessive manualku, second-person possessive manualmu, third-person possessive manualnya)

1. (colloquial) manual, handbook.

Adjective

manual (plural manual-manual)

1. manual,
   1. performed with the hands.
   2. performed by a human rather than a machine.

Further reading

• “manual” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manualis, or English manual (“handbook”)

Noun

manual m (definite singular manualen, indefinite plural manualer, definite plural manualene)

1. a manual (handbook)
2. (music) manual (organ keyboard)
3. (weightlifting, fitness) a dumbbell

References

• “manual” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manualis, or English manual (“handbook”)

Noun

manual m (definite singular manualen, indefinite plural manualar, definite plural manualane)

1. a manual (handbook)
2. (music) manual (organ keyboard)
3. (weightlifting, fitness) a dumbbell

References

• “manual” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manu?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /m??nwa?/

Adjective

manual m or f (plural manuais, comparable)

1. manual

Noun

manual m (plural manuais)

1. manual

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French manuel, Latin manualis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nu?al/

Adjective

manual m or n (feminine singular manual?, masculine plural manuali, feminine and neuter plural manuale)

1. manual

Declension

Noun

manual n (plural manuale)

1. handbook

Declension

See also

• carte

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manu?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?nwal/, [ma?nwal]

Adjective

manual (plural manuales)

1. manual (performed by the hands)
2. manual (operated by the hands)
3. manual (performed by a human)

   Antonym: automático

Derived terms

• de manual
• manualidad
• manualmente

Noun

manual m (plural manuales)

1. manual (handbook)
2. manual (booklet with instructions)

Further reading

• “manual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

manual c

1. a manual, a handbook
2. (music) a manual, a keyboard

Declension

See also

• manuell
• pedal