manual task
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmanualandtask
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manual
adjective
uk/ˈmæn.ju.əl/us/ˈmæn.ju.əl/
done with ...
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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofmanualandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Determining target position in an aimingmanualtaskand temporal control of impact movement illustrate that patterns of energy used for action are taskdependent.
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This approach has led to evidence of a significant correlation between a handedness score and functional cerebral asymmetry of the motor cortex during amanualtask.
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If one is employed in a dreary mechanical,manualtaskwhich is more appropriate to a machine, one endures a poor quality of life.
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In spite of considerable effort, no one successfully automated the production of core, which remained amanualtaskinto the 1970s.
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However, the media buying process remained amanualtaskthat required phone calls, email and faxes.
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With this machine, hulling and polishing, which removes different layers below the husk, could be done in several stages during the same passage, a process that automated amanualtask.
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In contrast, when the same subjects were constrained to adopt a bipedal posture to solve identical manual tasks, preferred biases in hand use increased significantly.
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For most manual tasks, especially those tasks involved in competitive activities, increasing performance by the specialization of one hand is certainly adaptive.
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Choir nuns - those who held the most important monastic offices - were clearly richer than their servant nuns who performed manual tasks and usually came from more humble backgrounds.
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These will include professional and technical tasks as well as manual tasks.
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Those will include professional and technical tasks, as well as manual tasks.
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The high level of manual dexterity that humans exhibit can be attributed to the manner in which manual tasks are controlled by the nervous system.
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He broke down manual tasks into a series of components that could be measured.
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The systems are based on the assumption that all manual tasks can be analysed into basic motions of the body or body members.
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Task analysis may be of manual tasks, such as bricklaying, and be analyzed as time and motion studies using concepts from industrial engineering.
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The former were employed at the manual tasks of the community, in order to relieve the canonesses.
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Reduction of manual tasks leads to reduction of errors.
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Major life activities include caring for one's self, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, working, performing manual tasks, and learning.
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In fact, this is something of an urban myth, he only marked out the plots and helped with manual tasks around the cemetery for a few hours.
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Classifications content is usually described using natural language labels, which has been proved to be very effective in manual tasks (e.g. to index documents, to search and navigate the tree).
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