Manipulation
[mə,nɪpjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [mə,nɪpjʊ'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; 'his manipulation of his friends was scandalous'.
Checker: Melva--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.
(n.) Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.
Editor: Priscilla
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Manual operations.
Edited by Clare
Examples
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Joseph Holtzapffel in his learned work on _Turning and Mechanical Manipulation_, gives a list of old publications describing lathes for turning both wood and metal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Very few of the people who travel through the tube are probably aware of such manipulation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By the manipulation of a key for closing the electric circuit the short or long impulse may be sent, at the pleasure of the operator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Manipulation in this case could not have been injurious, as the plants have separated sexes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And, finally, the makers of America had no knowledge of the complexities of vote manipulation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Smaller developments of lights are worked out by careful manipulation of the etching fluid with small sable brushes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison, then only twenty-one, had less business experience than the promoter, through whose manipulation he soon lost his financial interest in this early ticker enterprise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not infrequently he is actively engaged in the manipulation of some compound of special intricacy, whose results might be illuminative of obscure facts not patent to others than himself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It will be readily understood that numerous manipulations of this kind constitute no small items in the cost of producing high-grade watches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Segre