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A person who handles things manually
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manipulator
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Word definitions for manipulator in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, from manipulate with Latin agent noun ending. Perhaps formed on model of French manipulateur (1783).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of manipulate; one who manipulates. 2 A device which can be used to move, arrange or operate something. 3 A puppeteer, especially one controlling marionettes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manipulator \Ma*nip"u*la`tor\, n. One who manipulates, sometimes in an underhanded or fraudulent manner; as, a stock market manipulator.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Manipulator may refer to: A person who applies psychological manipulation Manipulator (device) , a device used to manipulate materials without direct contact
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard" [syn: operator ] a person who handles things manually
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the power to tax also is the lifeblood of powerful manipulators of the political system. ▪ Indeed from the standpoint of a cynical manipulator we could even invert his logic. ▪ Research has shown that so-called Machiavellians ...
Usage examples of manipulator.
He would be first and foremost a human predator, a born manipulator who would get by in life by exploiting people and systems.
Usually, in telegraphy, this work consists in sending over a line of a certain resistance intermittent currents, through the intermedium of suitable manipulators.
In withered and deformed limbs, resulting from infantile paralysis, the manipulator furnishes the most agreeable, direct, and certain remedy.
Melony asked him, but Homer Wells felt passing through his limbs a shudder that coincided exactly with his sudden vision of the photographer, the evil manipulator of the woman, the pony, the clouds of Heaven or the smoke of Hell.
All my manipulators and flagella have gone to that big moravec heaven in the sky.
Martian shellfish, but the ancestral Hets enslaved the Hands and used the iron filaments as general manipulators.
Aric, quiet and thoughtful, master manipulator of words but about as nonphysical as it was possible to get.
The degree of circulation given to the fluids, both inside and outside of the vessels, and of energy imparted to the organs and parts operated upon by the manipulator, is also unapproachable by the application of manual power.
Smaller robotic manipulators rolled along their tracks, darting out with serpentine agility to peck at some chunk of compact machinery.
Somehow, coming from an overpolished orator, a common manipulator of words like that worshiper of Tymora, the call to arms sounded crude.
The replacement crystal had to be lifted into the core, boosted slowly into the catching manipulators of the waldos, and then gently maneuvered into the main cradle.
The sectioned forward end, with its command and power modules and their manipulator housings, antennae, and light booms gave the vehicle a wasplike appearance.
Things were spilling out: an expanding mass of ellipsoidal objects, each perhaps half a metre long, metallic-white in colour, with various protrusions, gun-nozzles, manipulators and apertures interrupting its surface.
Now two of its more dextrous manipulators snaked into place and began to examine the gun's controls, stroking the leather casing in eerie fascination.
Leia found herself staring at the droid, watching as it eased a manipulator arm carefully through the branches toward a small cluster of dead leaves, clucking softly to itself all the while.