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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manipulate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
▪ Boss Mangan, the symbol of industrial and political might, is a love-stricken wreck easily manipulated by the go-getting Ellie Dunn.
▪ The physical and chemical environment can be easily manipulated as well as observed in the living state.
▪ It's easily manipulated and it dries hard.
▪ Under the guise of complimenting Elizabeth's mercy, Spenser is implying she is easily manipulated by others.
▪ Intrigued by their free and easy life style, the Parker's find their long held values being easily manipulated.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Virginia Radcliffe gave an alive, vampish performance as Elena, suggesting powerfully the will to survive and ability to manipulate.
▪ And individuals with the ability to manipulate what is written about a public person have enormous power.
▪ This was separated from the other digits, giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects.
▪ With the infusion of resources into cancer research came an explosion in our ability to understand and manipulate the cancer cell.
▪ Such a program provided Personnel Management with the ability to manipulate data already stored in the payroll system.
▪ The ability to manipulate information, he implied, could be our very salvation.
▪ Thus the ability to manipulate the different elements at will has in effect altered the task.
▪ Apparently some special attributes of this microbial group have led to acquisition of the ability to manipulate mitosis in eukaryotic hosts.
attempt
▪ As a cynical attempt to manipulate the electorate and the media, it was unsurpassed.
▪ Edward's attempts to manipulate seemed both touching and, eventually, fruitless.
▪ She saw no attempt at deception, no trace of an attempt to manipulate.
data
▪ Enterprises have considerable incentives to manipulate data.
▪ Nor does it yield to the temptation to manipulate performance and financial data in a way that obscures hard truths.
▪ Such a program provided Personnel Management with the ability to manipulate data already stored in the payroll system.
▪ In this chapter, you will learn how to use its sorting feature to manipulate the data in tables and lists.
▪ Database technology depends on the development of an appropriate data model for structuring and manipulating the data.
▪ The factory worker no longer manipulates the sheet of steel; he manipulates the data about the steel.
▪ In other words, it is a comprehensive and powerful facility for collecting, manipulating and analysing data of any type.
environment
▪ It manipulates the environment, and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them.
▪ Millions of years of evolution have equipped us to delicately manipulate our environment through our sense of touch.
▪ This all-encompassing quality reveals a strong desire amongst students to understand and manipulate their environment.
▪ Second, the government can and does manipulate the environment, physical, economic and social, in which people live.
government
▪ The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives.
▪ The constitution creates an independent Election Commission to keep the government bureaucracy from manipulating voting.
▪ Other government regulations could be manipulated by thieves for their own advantage.
▪ This extreme version of the distrust of government has often been manipulated by the corporate sector to block passage of government regulation.
▪ They accused the government of trying to manipulate the composition of the conference.
▪ Second, the government can and does manipulate the environment, physical, economic and social, in which people live.
image
▪ The diet doctors at this seminar are learning how to carefully manipulate their image.
information
▪ So far, the computer has proved very efficient at storing, manipulating and processing information.
▪ All political regimes attempt to manipulate information as a means of social control.
▪ The ability to manipulate information, he implied, could be our very salvation.
level
▪ It enables users to create and maintain dynamic data models that are defined and manipulated at the highest level, by category.
▪ To manipulate the level of production also meant that the role of government must be enlarged.
market
▪ Critics claim that this concentration allows packers to manipulate the market, and in particular to force down the price of cattle.
▪ It is good to manipulate a strained back but bad to manipulate the market.
▪ But the marketing men at the mortgage lenders have shown their power to manipulate the market.
situation
▪ He would not be able to manipulate the situation at all.
▪ Being a photographer I understand how photographers can manipulate a situation.
system
▪ He emphatically denied that he had acted improperly or had manipulated the system to his advantage.
▪ Occasionally the inmate may manipulate the system, and the choice allows that.
▪ Pressurizing the refrigerant is what manipulates the system to collect heat from the appropriate area, depending on the season.
world
▪ Natural selection favours those genes that manipulate the world to ensure their own propagation.
▪ Given its vast capacity, it could manipulate the world price by adjusting output.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Like our own hands, those of most primates allow them to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision.
▪ Journalists allow the Saatchis to manipulate them again and again.
▪ Managerial control over information allows the railways to manipulate the public presentation of results to political effect.
▪ Critics claim that this concentration allows packers to manipulate the market, and in particular to force down the price of cattle.
learn
▪ She will learn to manipulate numbers through practice and repetition.
▪ This enhances the testing of ideas and the learning of how to manipulate the variable parts.
▪ They must learn how to manipulate what is not a predictable machine into something which resembles one.
▪ The diet doctors at this seminar are learning how to carefully manipulate their image.
try
▪ All my life I have tried to manipulate people - bend them to my will.
▪ There are ways of trying to manipulate even the sortes Biblicae, but he had meticulously and demonstratively avoided them.
▪ They accused the government of trying to manipulate the composition of the conference.
▪ She tries to manipulate people and succeeds with Mitch but can not manipulate the others.
▪ Dukakis seemed to be reciting words merely to try to manipulate voters.
▪ It was like when children try and manipulate you and their efforts are so transparent it makes you hate them.
use
▪ Most women are resigned to this and some use their martyrdom to manipulate their men.
▪ He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.
▪ They can, of course, also be used to manipulate boolean variables.
▪ Grounds and supports are used to manipulate the colour, texture and absorbency the artist wishes to use.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Babies investigate their world by manipulating objects.
▪ Developing a budget involves manipulating numbers and requires strong analytical skills.
▪ He's so crazy about her he doesn't realize he's being manipulated.
▪ He's such a nice man, I could imagine him getting manipulated into a situation like that.
▪ He accused the environmentalists of trying to manipulate public opinion in their favour.
▪ He managed to manipulate her into lending his company £500,000.
▪ Local people were unwilling to believe that police had manipulated evidence.
▪ Players manipulate characters on the screen using a joystick.
▪ Students were outraged that someone could use their newspaper to manipulate them.
▪ The images can be manipulated and stored on disk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How this rock widow and ageing wild child cons, manipulates and exploits the sharks makes for a delightful tale of revenge.
▪ Millions of years of evolution have equipped us to delicately manipulate our environment through our sense of touch.
▪ Printed exhortations can convey the same dehumanizing views; but print is limited in its manipulating power by the factor of delay.
▪ Sir C: I believe you speak of the practice whereby the political inclination of a parish is physically manipulated.
▪ The association defines a robot as a programmable device used either to manipulate or transport objects in a manufacturing process.
▪ The report does not allege that evidence had been manipulated to benefit prosecutors, the official said.
▪ This we might call the experimental activity, with the teacher acting as observer manipulating the techniques concerned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manipulate

Manipulate \Ma*nip"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manipulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Manipulating.] [LL. manipulatus, p. p. of manipulare to lead by the hand, fr. L. manipulus. See Maniple.]

  1. To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.

  2. To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns; to manipulate the stock market.

Manipulate

Manipulate \Ma*nip"u*late\, v. i. To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manipulate

1827, "to handle skillfully by hand," a back-formation from manipulation. Of mental influence, from 1864. Financial sense is from 1870. In mid-20c., it served as a euphemism for "masturbation." Related: Manipulated; manipulating.

Wiktionary
manipulate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands 2 (context transitive English) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something 3 (context transitive medicine English) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose

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WordNet
manipulate

  1. v. influence or control shrewdly or deviously; "He manipulated public opinion in his favor" [syn: pull strings, pull wires]

  2. hold something in one's hands and move it

  3. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent]

  4. manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" [syn: rig]

  5. control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line" [syn: keep in line, control]

  6. treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed

Usage examples of "manipulate".

Too late, his mind gave him insight: he saw with disappointment that he had been manipulated to the very move his First Adviser had desired.

Impersonation has been at the heart of many detective stories, but it has seldom carried the emotional charge of Brat Farrar, and our sympathies are never in a mere puzzle so skilfully and so surprisingly manipulated.

With his support Sir Godber could manipulate the College finances as he pleased, and the Dean cursed the Bursar viciously as he climbed the stairs to his room.

That had to wait for genetic engineering to manipulate cells, incorporating magnetite particles into a ferro-vesicle cell model.

Then, by delicately manipulating the variable condensers and inductances of, his sensitive shunting relay circuits, he slowly shifted that frightful rod of energy from frequency to frequency, staring into the brilliant blank-ness of his micrometer screen as he did so.

Kinnison began deftly to manipulate the micrometric vernier of his dials.

I will not let that misbegotten old man use Chy an Cleth to manipulate me into a second marriage.

He was able to manipulate a cilia board well enough to reproduce a few basic commands, and when Voth absentmindedly pressed a limb against his skin, he was often able to recognize some of the simpler morphemes, like numbers.

And in the foremost row, at the extreme right, sat the driver, who manipulated the multiped conveyance by means of two vertical levers, on either side of his saddle.

With the appearance of the first dish upon the table that night the boy was very frankly nonplussed at the array of implements upon each side of his plate, placed there for him to manipulate.

Added to that complicated set of circumstances was the fact that Jonathan was overbearing, arrogant, and much too sure of his ability to manipulate her for Regina to feel comfortable with the relationship.

The sphere of Prime, the magick of manipulating the power that underlay all magick, to bind Quintessence to the link and make it all permanent.

Its underside glowed with reactive paint, and I could see the metal cage on top where the operator would guide the AI deck through manipulating the dangling tentacles of crabhooks to pick up five racks at a time and transport them to the staging area.

His recumbent ear, which seems to be deaf to everyday sounds, hears pointers with the help of which the future can be manipulated.

But it was not a sign as bad as it might have been: the thought ports in his armor were evidently not allowing the noetic reader to redact or to manipulate his nervous system.