0 present 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.
Truth-value story tasks provide a way of manipulating context to demonstrate the effect of pragmatics on judgments of acceptability.
It is like tactually trying to recognize an object lain on your hand without manipulating it.
To test this possibility, lexical diffusion in children's productive sound systems was experimentally induced by systematically manipulating frequency and density.
In such cases, the processes predicted by the envisionment of rule 4 become questionable due to the imprecision associated with extending and manipulating curved segments.
Second, our -calculus language includes first-order values, that is, values that do not contain links, and operations for manipulating them.
Initially it was an economic institution designed to curb the power of plutocrats who were manipulating medicinal drug markets in their favor.
The second part contains a collection of laws for manipulating expressions that involve actor primitives.
If it means manipulating the walls in plan, it involves the ceiling and floor planes in section.
