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/mənˌɪpjəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Manipulation 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. "Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind."

The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manipulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... attempts have been made in regard to all three. Hence the detection of adulteration is not a difficult matter. Designing persons, aware of the extreme difficulty of imitating these substances, have undertaken to employ lower grades, and, by manipulation, copy, as far as may be, the higher sorts. Every one knows how readily tea, and coffee, for that matter, will take up odors and flavors from substances placed near them. This is abundantly exemplified in the country grocery or general store, where the teas and ...

— Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes • Miss Parloa

... stenographer brought in the "news" all neatly type-written and ready for the printer. Mr. Paul was a sunny soul, who, in the presence of the reporter laughed the seemingly happy laugh of the actor-man, and when alone sighed, suffered and swore as other men did. Mr. Paul was a genius. By his careful manipulation of the press the public was in time persuaded that the only question was whether the company, who owned the road, should run it, or whether the brotherhoods, who did not own it, should run it for them. Every statement given out by the company was printed and accepted, generally, ...

— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman

... the First Edition, it will be seen that by a perfectly justifiable stroke of artistic manipulation, the writer of the letters, the Ocean Tramp himself, is drowned at sea. Neither author nor publisher had offered any guarantee that the book was a record of cold facts, and it was not deemed necessary ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... meantime, but with equally clever manipulation had made himself into a counterfeit presentment of ...

— With Links of Steel • Nicholas Carter

... neighbours in the South of Ireland—told me that on the only occasion when he visited Belfast he was spat at in the streets. The story is quite credible to those who have watched the deliberate manipulation of the worst religious passions by the party organisers of Ulster, not always unassisted by ...

— Home Rule - Second Edition • Harold Spender

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