0 past simple and past participle of manipulate --
1 to control something or someone to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly: --
The opposition leader accused government ministers of manipulating the statistics to suit themselves.
Throughout her career she has very successfully manipulated the media.
2 to control something using the hands: --
The doctor manipulated the base of my spine and the pain disappeared completely.
The wheelchair is designed so that it is easy to manipulate.
The objects were generated both as virtual models (to be displayed and manipulated via the computer mouse in a virtual-reality environment) and as physical models.
Such simulator software allows one to generate virtual worlds where the dynamic objects can be manipulated, and the reaction forces are calculated.
Although the electoral system was manipulated, obtaining democratic legitimisation was a major concern for the ruling parties during most of the 1930s.
We often do not know the goals of people's actions or utterances, but this does not necessarily mean we are manipulated.
The architecture's interaction aspect between the solvers is simple depending on metarules, manipulated by a metamodule, relating intermediate process results to actions to be undertaken.
The second experiment manipulated participants' degree of belief that the forced choice items were mutually exclusive and exhaustive and found similar results.
This task is believed to probe the subjects' ability to assign -roles to positions where the manipulated variable is syntactic structure.
Whereas meaning exists in subjective appreciation or understanding of something, information may be stored, reproduced, analysed and manipulated separately from its subjective meaning.
