Manipulation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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