MANIPULATE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Manipulate

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mənˈɪpjəlˌeɪt/ Listen

Manipulate

verb

(past & past part. manipulated; pres. part. manipulating)

Influence or control shrewdly or deviously. Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires.

Hold something in one's hands and move it.

Tamper, with the purpose of deception. Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle. "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"

Manipulate in a fraudulent manner. Synonym: rig.

Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage. Synonyms: control, keep in line. "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up" , "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line" , "She keeps in line"

Treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed.

See more definitions of Manipulate...

See images of 'Manipulate'

Etymology of 'Manipulate'

Share |

"Manipulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... assaults mainly through the effectiveness of the grenades, handknives, revolvers and similar weapons; that the trenches and trench warfare are not suited to close hand-to-hand encounters, as there is not usually room enough to manipulate a gun and bayonet. (This agrees with what was told us by our Negro friend, Bob Scanlon, whom we met at Clermond, and who said all he wanted and carried in an assault or a fight were grenades, a knife and a ...

— A Journey Through France in War Time • Joseph G. Butler, Jr.

... somewhat at variance with her words Mrs. Terriberry began to manipulate a pair of curling tongs which had been ...

— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart

... for imitation among ourselves in certain conventional compositions of vegetable forms. Perhaps it is our Aryan ancestry that has given us a prevailing taste for such decorations; and it is worth while to consider how best to manipulate them.[89] ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... strongly imbued with the tendencies of the colourist school. Antwerp ever sought to uphold the traditions of a great Past; in the atelier Gleyre you might have studied form and learnt to fill it with colour, but here you would be taught to manipulate colour, and to limit it by form. A peculiar kind of artistic kicks and cuffs were administered to the student by Van Lerius as he went his rounds. "That is a charming bit of colour you have painted in that forehead," he said to me on one occasion—"so delicate and refined. Do it again," ...

— In Bohemia with Du Maurier - The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences • Felix Moscheles

... two miles." He glanced puzzledly at the compass and moved the wheel a fraction. "There's a jetty comes out there and I guess we'd better give it a good wide berth." Collars were pulled up to keep the moisture from creeping down necks, and Perry begged to be allowed to manipulate the fog-horn. He went at it whole-souledly and Steve had to curb his enthusiasm. "Once a minute will do, Perry," he said. "You sound like a locomotive scaring a ...

— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour

More quotes...