how-to

See also: howto and how to

English

Alternative forms

howto, how to

Etymology

how +‎ to

Adjective

how-to (not comparable)

that gives advice or instruction on a particular topic

Translations

that gives advice or instruction on a particular topic

Hebrew: הדרכה (he) f (hadrakhá) (noun—like an adjective when used with another noun in the construct state, which it modifies, e.g. ספרי הדרכה "how-to books"), מעשי m (ma'así) Literally, “practical”
Hungarian: tanácsadó (hu), ismertető (hu)
Italian: come fare pl or m or m pl or f or f pl
Tibetan: ཁྲིད་ཀྱི (khrid kyi), སློབ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི (slob khrid kyi), བསླབ་བྱའི (bslab bya'i)

Noun

how-to (plural how-tos)

A brief informal description of how to accomplish a specific task.
A book or other guide describing how to accomplish tasks in a certain field

Translations

description of how to accomplish a task

Dutch: zo-doe-je-dat
Hebrew: כיצד לבצע (keytsád l'vatséa), איך לעשות (eykh la'asót), מדריך (madríkh)
Tibetan: ལམ་སྟོན (lam ston) Literally, “showing the way”,སློབ་ཁྲིད (slob khrid); ཚུལ (tshul) ("how to, manner” particle), སྟངས (stangs) ("way of" particle) (these two particles are not used alone, but after the task that they describe, e.g. "cooking how-to" is either of ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་ཚུལ or ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་སྟངས)

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