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Definitions: Manipulate |
ManipulateVerb1. Influence or control shrewdly or deviously: "He manipulated public opinion in his favor.". 2. Hold something in one's hands and move it. 3. Fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data". 4. Manipulate in a fraudulent manner; of prices. 5. Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "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". 6. Treat manually, as with massage, in physiotherapy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manipulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: ManipulateSynonyms: control (v), cook (v), fake (v), falsify (v), fudge (v), keep in line (v), misrepresent (v), pull strings (v), pull wires (v), rig (v), wangle (v). (additional references) |
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Touch | Verb: touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler. |
Use | Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I would be very careful about this if I were you. What if you fall into the hands of some madman with plans to manipulate your brain? (Peggy Sue Got Married; writing credit: Jerry Leichtling; Arlene Sarner) Only we can manipulate the molecular structure of things. (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg) | |
Lyrics | You can break hearts and manipulate minds ("Around the Way Girl"; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
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Health | Massage therapists manipulate the soft tissues of the body to normalize those tissues. (references) | |
Ultimately, scientists hope to find ways to manipulate these signaling mechanisms to enhance regeneration. (references) | ||
To reduce the effects of jet lag, some doctors try to manipulate the biological clock with a technique called light therapy. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | The GDF also reported that officials continued to manipulate a variety of other "instruments of leverage" (including the price of printing at state-controlled publishing houses) in an effort to apply pressure on private media rivals. (references) |
Economic History | Japan | Parties can manipulate this system to delay resolution, however, and because judges move frequently, continuity is often lost. (references) |
Philippines | Investors also complain that entrenched economic interests are able to manipulate the regulatory process to protect market position. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The MDC accused the police of arresting the three for trying to film ZANU-PF attempts to manipulate the election. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | There were credible reports that the Government intervenes routinely to manipulate professional and trade union elections in favor of its own supporters. (references) |
Yugoslavia | Vojislav Kostunica was elected President of the Federation in elections held on September 24, 2000 that were closely contested; President Slobodan Milosevic ultimately was unable to manipulate the elections. (references) | |
Political Rights | Guyana | The report found no evidence of a conspiracy or corruption to manipulate election systems or the election results, as the opposition had alleged. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Government and ruling party supporters used tactics of intimidation and violence, with the aid of security forces, to manipulate the electoral process in four districts holding parliamentary by-elections and three cities holding mayoral elections during the year. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | President Vojislav Kostunica came to power as President of Yugoslavia after mass demonstrations in early October by citizens protesting Slobodan Milosevic's attempts to manipulate the Federal Election Commission and Constitutional Court to force a second round of elections. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Manipulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.77% of the time. "Manipulate" is used about 514 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.77% | 452 | 12,885 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.46% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 514 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
manipulate people | 16 |
manipulate | 16 |
manipulate woman | 7 |
manipulate photo | 4 |
man manipulate | 3 |
manipulate picture | 3 |
manipulate media | 2 |
image manipulate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "manipulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | hanteer (handle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | manipuloj (move), përdor (apply, call forth, employ, exercise, exploit, participate, reclaim, take, use, utilize, wield), ndryshoj (alter, amend, change, differ, diversify, do up, inflect, metamorphose, recast, reverse, shift, switch, transform, vary), jap e marr (peddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ناور في السوق التجارية, تلاعب (cook, doctor, juggle, jugglery, manipulation, monkey with, play, rig, tamper, wangle), عالج ببراعة, ضارب (gamble, plunge, striking), أثر في (affect, impact, influence, inspire, involve, overawe, prepossess, react, touch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фалшифицирам (adulterate, corrupt, counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, garble, gerrymander, tamper), манипулирам с (handle), ловко подвеждам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "布 (order about), "作 (Manipulated, Manipulating, manipulation, OP, Operate, Operated, Operating, Operation, operations). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | manipulovat (fix, handle), zkreslit (color, colour, deface, distort, misrepresent, skew), obsluhovat (attend to, operate, tend), napravit (correct, make good, put right, reclaim, redress, reform, remedy, repair, set, undo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | manipuleren (handle), omgaan met (associate with, handle), hanteren (handle, handling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | manipuli (handle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اداره کردن (Address, Administer, Chairman, Conduct, Direct, Engineer, Execute, Keep, Man, Manage, Moderate, Officiate, Operate, Rule, Run, Wield), دستکاری کردن (Retouch), بامهارت انجام دادن , بااستادی درست کردن , بادست عمل کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | käsitellä (deal with, handle, process, treat, treat of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | manipuler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | manipulieren (gerrymander, handle, rig), handhaben (handle, implement, manage, manipulation, materials handling, operate, to handle, to operate, wield, work), manipuliere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μανουβράρω (rig), παραποιώ (alter, counterfeit, falsify, misquote, prevaricate, tamper, to doctor), χειρίζομαι (go about, handle, manage, operate, wield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למשמש (examine, feel, finger, handle, rummage, touch), לתפעל (operate), לתכמן (pull a leg, trick out), ל"שפיע בעורמ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | manipulál (to juggle, to manipulate, wangle), bánik valamivel (treat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyelewengkan (deflect), mengalatkan (treat or use as an instrument), memainkan (play). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | manipolare (adulterate, falsify, handle, rig, to cook up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マニ"ュレイト . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교묘히 다루십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stiurey (captain as team; guidance, captain; guidance, command, control, controllability, direct, direction, guide, handle, handling, helm, lead, manage, manipulation, navigate, navigation, pilot, piloting, regulate, regulation, rudder, steer, steering, superintendence, supervise, supervision), laueaghey (manipulation, wielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anipulatemay manipular (confection, handle, manhole, prepare), manejar (carry, do without, dragee, handle, luggage, manage, pull, sway, wield). (various references) manipula (control, handle, juggle, key, manoeuvre, operate, prove), manevra (crank, handle, manoeuvre, run, sail, scheme, switch, work), mãslui (counterfeit, falsify, gerrymander, stack), mânui (handle, manage, operate, prove, sway, wield), învârti (brandish, dance, grind, revolve, roll, rotate, spin, turn, turn round, twiddle, twirl, twist, wheel, whirl, wield, wind). (various references) умело обращаться, воздействовать (influence, react, reverberate), манипулировать (manipulated, manipulating). (various references) manipulisati (juggle), rukovati (handle, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate, wield), nepropisno uticati. (various references) manipular (doctor, fiddle, handle, manage, maneuver, manoeuvre, wangle). (various references) manipulera (tamper). (various references) oynama yapmak (bend, cook, cook up, falsify, juggle, juggle with), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), hile yapmak (cheat, chicane, clip, cog, finagle, gerrymander, load the dice, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, renege, rig, rook, sharp, swindle), el ile işletmek. (various references) впливати (affect, bear in, influence, operate, predetermine, react, sway), маніпулювати, підтасовувати (garble, wangle). (various references) teimlo (feel, handle, touch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manipulate": manipulated, manipulates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "manipulate": outmanipulate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "manipulate": outmanipulated, outmanipulates, unmanipulated. (additional references) | |
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"Manipulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mandibulate, maniipulate, manipulae, manipulare, menipulate, minipulate, munipulate, paniculate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manipulate" (pronounced muni"pyulā't) |
| 7 | -i" p y u l ā' t | stipulate. |
| 6 | -p y u l ā' t | copulate, depopulate, populate. |
| 5 | -y u l ā' t | accumulate, articulate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, emulate, formulate, inoculate, miscalculate, overregulate, recalculate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, strangulate, tabulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | adulate, annihilate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-m-n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: aluminate, penultima. | |
-2 letters: antimale, laminate, palatine, platinum, putamina, tumpline. | |
-3 letters: ailment, aliment, alumina, alumine, alumnae, alunite, amentia, animate, impanel, implant, laminae, maniple, manteau, matinal, nuptial, palmate, pantile, patinae, petunia, pinetum, planate, platane, plateau, platina, plumate, putamen, timpana, ulpanim, unplait. | |
-4 letters: alpine, alumin, alumna, alumni, ampule, amulet, anemia, animal, aplite, apneal, auntie, eluant, entail, etamin, impala, impale, impute, inmate, lament, lamiae, lamina, lanate, limpet, lineup, lumina, lumpen, lunate, lupine, lutein, malate, maline, manila, manitu, mantel, mantle, mantua, manual, meatal, menial, mental, minuet, minute, muleta, mutine, napalm, palate, pantie, patina, patine, paulin, peanut, penial, penult, pileum, pinata, pineal, pineta, pintle, pitman, pitmen, plaint, planet, platan, platen, plenum, pliant, plutei, pneuma, taenia, taipan, tamale, tamein, tampan, telium, tenail, tineal, ultima, unpile, untame, uptime. | |
-5 letters: alane, alant, alate, alien, aline, amain, ament, amine, amnia, ample, ampul, anile, anima, anime, antae, apian, apnea, atman, elain, elint, email, entia, ileum, impel, inapt, inept, inlet, input, lamia, lanai, lapin, laten, lauan, leant, leapt, leman, lepta, letup, liana, liane, liman, limen, limpa, linum, lumen, lunet, lupin, lutea, maile, manat, mania, manta, maple, matin, meant, menta, metal, miaul, milpa, minae, natal, paean, paint, palea, palet, panel, paten, patin, penal, petal, pieta, pilau, pilea, pinta, plain, plait, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, plume, tamal, taupe, telia, tempi, tenia, tepal, tinea, tulip, ulama, ulema, ulnae, ulpan, unapt, unite, unlet, unlit, unmet, untie, until, uplit, utile. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-m-n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: manipulated, manipulates, planetarium. | |
+2 letters: manipulative, planetariums. | |
+3 letters: antepenultima, manipulatable, outmanipulate, perambulating, perambulation, permutational, pneumatically, unmanipulated. | |
+4 letters: antepenultimas, manipulatively, outmanipulated, outmanipulates, perambulations, unemphatically. | |
+5 letters: antepenultimate, supernaturalism, unparliamentary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 69 70 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -. .. .--. ..- .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110000 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n i p u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0069 0070 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678075828778678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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