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manipulation

[muh-nip-yuh-ley-shuh

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noun

the act of manipulating.

the state or fact of being manipulated.

skillful or artful management.

Origin:
1720–30; < French, equivalent to manipule handful (of grains, etc.; see maniple) + -ation -ation

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The more money for a client, the more money for these masters of manipulation.

Dexterity: fine manipulation sufficient to operate a keyboard, handle individual papers, write and take notes.

If all things were equal, currency manipulation would have an effect on trade, but things are far from equal.

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The more money for a client, the more money for these masters of manipulation.

Dexterity: fine manipulation sufficient to operate a keyboard, handle individual papers, write and take notes.

If all things were equal, currency manipulation would have an effect on trade, but things are far from equal.

Manipulation of habitat and the high populations of the introduced fire ant are believed to be key factors in the decline.

The third group was not exposed to any manipulation.

He was not without his critics, however, for his manipulation of subjects and images.

Sports officials are looking for ways to detect the genetic manipulation.

Hunter and other bankers argue that carbon markets are less susceptible to manipulation and major price spikes.

There are a thousand questions about how to prevent collusion and other sorts of price manipulation.

When markets are that small, punters should watch carefully for signs of manipulation.

The right hand prints only become visible after digital manipulation of the original photograph.

The manipulation of a single gene is enough to cure the wandering eye of a meadow vole.

The military's scientific fringe has toyed with weather manipulation and geo-engineering for years.

Economic freedom works much better than organizational manipulation.

They face charges of market manipulation and accounting fraud.

Mummies are usually the product of human manipulation.

Now researchers have taken big steps in creating and using nanostructures that have eluded manipulation in the past.

More worrisome is the question of manipulation and abuse.

The textbook argument in favour of central bank independence is that it prevents political manipulation of the economy.

Please read our statement on digital manipulation for further details.

Its second life now is the offshore oil and gas manipulation, inspection and manipulation.

GarageBand doesn't allow for the sort of robust and precise track manipulation of higher-end options.

Still no jobs and still unemployment number manipulation.

Rotating a picture is simply a manipulation in memory done by your software.

It's important to remember that we've been doing this kind of genetic manipulation of animals for a long time.

Nanotechnology involves the manufacture and manipulation of materials at the molecular or atomic level.

There is no monetary problem in the world bigger than the manipulation of the exchange rate between talk and action.

Clarke suggested the differences were rooted in inaccurate and changing reporting systems, rather than intentional manipulation.

He probably learned his data manipulation skills from some well known warmist climate scientists.

The advanced of our understanding of genetics, and newly invented methods have allowed for great progress in genetic manipulation.

Unfortunately, manipulation of these funds is all too prevalent.

Any manipulation has consequence, and may be harmful for future research.

He didn't say how much, if any, would go toward detecting genetic manipulation.

Any fish can be made out to be a monster through manipulation of information and setting and camera angles.

Lebed's response to securities regulators last week after they said he had run a stock manipulation scheme as an.

The latter has been and will be compromised in a convolution of manipulation and fabrication.

Because of their low price, they are susceptible to manipulation by investors who can buy large amounts of shares.

Voles are particularly vulnerable to manipulation by chipmunks.

Jobs believed in the fine manipulation of the hand on touch sensitive viewing screens.

Some memory theorists have believed that peripheral details may be subject to manipulation but the major details are not.

There is evidence of benefit for spinal manipulation treatment of subacute pain and exacerbations of chronic pain.

The apparent evidence of data manipulation is weak and has convincing explanations as legitimate work.

It is not as if business students are taking electives in gerbil spinal manipulation.

As mentioned, the manipulation by magnetic fields is not ideal and self contained power supplies don't last long enough.

But the evaluation and harnessing of that trait is accomplished with basic manipulation of the bulls' cognitive circuitry.

It was his shrewd manipulation that prolonged the reign of.

Buy this, sit the kids down and let the mechanical manipulation of letters suck their life from them.

Block who's the dastardly female villain in this sordid example of the female manipulation of mindless male executives.

The findings do, however, demonstrate what might be a powerful method of manipulation.

The manipulation of trapped ions is at the forefront of the quantum computing effort.

The largest electric-car company was nailed for stock manipulation and then went bust.

She is permitted to manipulate, but the man who accepts the offer is the only one who is charged with manipulation.

The uncanny stability increased concerns about data manipulation.

The consequences of genetic seed manipulation are many.

Google's manipulation suggests that the true purpose of.

Good student evaluations can even more easily result from effective manipulation regardless of actual student learning outcomes.

The manipulation itself is done by the quantum operators.

Also, your inclusion of the idea of specific object manipulation is a post hoc fallacy.

Various degrees of control can be experienced, from subtle manipulation to blatant ordering.

The probability of that happening without manipulation is one-tenth of one per cent.

Moreover, understanding-complete or partial-brings the possibility of manipulation.

Rational manipulation of these natural weapons may be a good approach.

And this new power will allow the large-scale manipulation of living organisms.

I've been watching for a sign of deception or manipulation from him to surface towards a loved one.

Its government manipulation that holds interest rates down arround the globe not the market.

Two research teams are overcoming that hurdle with creative microfluidics-the precise manipulation of microscopic droplets.

The manipulation was uncovered, publicised and is being exploited by opposition candidates: the system worked.

And sometimes managers will resort to earnings manipulation and fraud.

Parents gentically manipulation their offspring don't worry about it.

Crop manipulation is the only possible way to grow enough food for this many people.

I've seen all the fraud and market manipulation first hand.

For one thing, it cannot perform mathematical or logical manipulation of data.

Scientist that use global warming as their battle cry are discredeting the scientific comunity due to their lies and manipulation.

It seems that genetic manipulation of plants and animals is a red flag for some of the commenters to this article.

The famous tree ring data manipulation incident is a case in point.

Perhaps the manipulation of bosons and leptons such as muons and neutrinos.

But money is an invented paradigm and therefore leaves itself open as a tool of manipulation by those who control.

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World English Dictionary

manipulate (məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt)

—vb
1.	(tr) to handle or use, esp with some skill, in a process or action: to manipulate a pair of scissors
2.	to negotiate, control, or influence (something or someone) cleverly, skilfully, or deviously
3.	to falsify (a bill, accounts, etc) for one's own advantage
4.	(in physiotherapy) to examine or treat manually, as in loosening a joint

[C19: back formation from manipulation, from Latin manipulus handful]

manipulability

—n

ma'nipulatable

—*adj*

ma'nipulable

—*adj*

manipu'lation

—n

ma'nipulative

—*adj*

ma'nipulatively

—*adv*

ma'nipulator

—n

ma'nipulatory

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

manipulation

c.1730, "a method of digging ore," from Fr. manipulation, from manipule "handful" (a pharmacists' measure), from L. manipulus "handful, sheaf," from manus "hand" (see manual) + root of plere "to fill" (see plenary). Sense of "skillful handling

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of objects" is first recorded 1826; extended 1828 to "handling of persons" as well as objects.

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Medical Dictionary

manipulation ma·nip·u·la·tion (mə-nĭp'yə-lā'shən)
n.

The act or the practice of manipulating.
The state of being manipulated.

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