manual skill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmanualandskill
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manual
adjective
uk/ˈmæn.ju.əl/us/ˈmæn.ju.əl/
done with ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk/skɪl/us/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofmanualandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is not infrequently done by people who have part professional skill and partmanualskill.
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It is given only to small numbers of those who by general education andmanualskillhave shown they can benefit by the intensive courses.
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Mere manual work, meremanualskill, must have a source.
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During the war, and since, we learned to train people for complicated vocations demanding greatmanualskilland technical knowledge.
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It will need the person ofmanualskill.
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Butmanualskilland manual dexterity will not be enough.
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There are others who may be very dull intellectually, but who may show great aptitude in physical ormanualskill.
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It will also need the person with neither high intellect normanualskillbut who will do an honest day's work at some simple task which needs to be done.
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We depend not merely on the old-fashioned, excellentmanualskillof some of our workers—technical skill, too—but also on the fact that we have some highly intelligent scientists and thinkers.
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This may be one way in which to deal with the difficulty facing those training in micro-surgery while retaining the general prohibition on using animals to attainmanualskill.
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I could also see, in the way that they worked, that there was a high level ofmanualskill.
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Unmarried, his pleasures were in his laboratory and library, and in perfecting optical apparatus and microscopic preparations, for which he showed extraordinarymanualskill.
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Hismanualskillwas highly regarded, but his mathematical skills were not made use of.
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Flory counters this by noting that littlemanualskillis taught and that the only buildings built are prisons.
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A large series of tasks is completed and the child is expected to master many skills: physical skills, manual skills and other skills.
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Teaching trades and manual skills had traditionally been a privilege of the guilds, in which learning was indistinguishable from apprenticeship.
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This chapter discusses details regarding high-quality fabrics, exemplary designs and excellent manual skills in weaving, embroidery, printing and dyeing.
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As the eighteenth-century reformers gave increasing emphasis to skilled trades, they also assigned greater importance to institutions which provided teaching in manual skills.
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As such, it necessarily involved thinking, observation and manual skills.
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There will possibly be a declining demand in future for manual skills.
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