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manipulation

CIDE DICTIONARY

manipulationn. [Cf. F. manipulation.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind."  Whewell.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

manipulation

Conduct

N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.

Touch

N touch, tact, taction, tactility, feeling, palpation, palpability, contrectation, manipulation, massage, hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna, palpus, tactual, tactile, tangible, palpable, lambent.


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