Define the word manipulation"Manipulation" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Manipulation \Ma*nip`u*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. manipulation.]
1. The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being
manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the
hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or
art.
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Manipulation is to the chemist like the external
senses to the mind. --Whewell.
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2. The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.
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3. Artful management; as, the manipulation of political
bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes
of deception or fraud.
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"manipulation" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
manipulation
n 1: exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's
own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was
scandalous" [syn: use]
2: the action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of
the hands [syn: handling]
"manipulation" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "manipulation":
accounting, action, agency, anal intercourse, analysis, artifice,
authority, autoeroticism, automatic electronic navigation,
bear raid, behind-the-scenes influence, bestiality, braking,
buggery, bull raid, cabal, caressing, collusion, command,
complicity, complot, computation, conduct, confederacy, connivance,
conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, control, coordination, corner,
corner in, counterplot, covin, cunnilingus, deep-laid plot,
devices, direction, driving, employment, engineering, execution,
exercise, expedients, exploitation, fact distribution, feeling,
fellatio, fellation, finagling, finesse, fingering, forecasts,
frame-up, friction, frottage, functioning, game, governance,
government, guidance, hand job, handling, husbandry, influence,
inspection, intrigue, irrumation, lead, leading, little game,
machination, management, managery, managing, maneuvering,
maneuvers, masturbation, monopoly, nonlinear calibrations,
occupation, onanism, operancy, operation, oral-genital stimulation,
ordering, output measurement, palpation, pederasty, performance,
performing, petting, pilotage, plot, plotting, political influence,
practice, pressure, processing, raid, record keeping, regulation,
responsibility, rigging, rubbing, running, scheme, schemery,
scheming, self-abuse, sodomy, steerage, steering, stratagem,
stroking, supersonic flow detection, tactical maneuvers, tactics,
the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, trick, underplot, using,
utilization, wash sale, washing, web of intrigue, wire-pulling,
work, working, workings
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