Word Finder - manipulation

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The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.

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The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.

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The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.

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After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.

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The usage of underhanded influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.

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The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.

Surely Alex wasn't blind to the manipulation going on with intent to keep him in Texas.

Even I would fall to his manipulation, if he were to use it on me.

On many occasions, she'd seen the duplicity and cold manipulation he'd spoken of.

He wouldn't respond to her mind manipulation attempts, and he was able to control Jonny.

That was all today amounted to - a manipulation.

The tree lends itself with peculiar readiness to the skilfu manipulation of- the gardener, and is by him trained into shapes of remarkable grace.

He didn't sense the Original Other until within range of his mind manipulation power.

During the process of manipulation, whether on the chair or whilst the glass is being reheated, the rod must be constantly and gently trundled to prevent the collapse of the bulb or vessel.

Leibnitz's principle of the " nisi intellectus ipse " was expanded by him into a demon stration the completest yet effected by philosophy of the part played by the subject not merely in the manipulation of the material of experience but in the actual constitution of the object that is known.

Such manipulation could not but lead to interpolations or confusions in the original text.

There would be no sport here, no games and certainly no manipulation.

By the constitution this was within their power, and by clever manipulation of the constituencies they brought it about that the Ultramontane majority was reduced to two.

This startling victory of the Social Democracy, though to a certain extent discounted by the dissensions between the two wings of the party which were revealed at the congress at Dresden in the same year, was in the highest degree disconcerting to the government; but in the actual manipulation of the Reichstag it facilitated the work of the chancellor by enabling him to unite the other groups more readily against the common enemy.

The laboratory examination may be used in subjects like physics, chemistry, geology, zoology, botany, anatomy, physiology, to test powers of manipulation and knowledge of experimental methods.

Throughout the second period of the Omayyads, representatives of this family were among their most dangerous opponents, partly by the skill with which they undermined the reputation of the reigning princes by accusations against their orthodoxy, their moral character and their administration in general, and partly by their cunning manipulation of internecine jealousies among the Arabic and non-Arabic subjects of the empire.

There was adroit manipulation of the reversible signs.

Cynical manipulation by the US of its power of veto in the UN Security Council is bringing increasing international condemnation.

We plan to make a " molecular tool box " for the genetic manipulation of the genus clostridium.

They would be Lori's tools of manipulation.

They have a hooded opening on one side near the top. This opening serves for the introduction of the glass-mixture, for the removal of the melted glass and as a source of heat for the processes of manipulation.

See his work on Chemical Manipulation.

Avoid using your fingers, because constant manipulation of this sensitive area using fingers may encourage wrinkling.

It operates on manipulation of brain waves but only on highly intelligent individuals.

If Gabriel wasn't immune to the mind manipulation magic, he suspected Andre would be using it on him right now.

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) at a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1854, because its greater flexibility renders it less likely to damage the insulating envelope during the manipulation of the cable.

The examination of small test-pieces of the glass withdrawn from the crucible by means of an iron rod having shown that the molten mass is free from bubbles, the stirring process may be begun, the object of this manipulation being to render the glass as homogeneous as possible and to secure the absence of veins or striae in the product.

In fact, both the creationstories at the opening of Genesis must have undergone much editorial manipulation.

The conservative tendencies of the Chinese people have prevented them adopting the modern methods of extensive cultivation based on scientific principles, and the manipulation of crops by machinery in place of hand labour.

This difficulty was overcome by the invention of the Bunsen calorimeter, in which the quantity of ice melted is measured by observing the diminution of volume, but the successful employment of this instrument requires considerable skill in manipulation.

The explanation of these discrepancies in the fundamental constant is not at all clear, but they may be taken as an illustration of the difficulties of manipulation attending the use of this instrument, to which reference has already been made.

Scholasticism embodied what the Christian community had saved from the wreckage of Greek dialectic. Yet with all its effective manipulation of the formal technique of its translated and mutilated Aristotle, Scholasticism would have gone under long before it did through the weakness intrinsic to its divorce of the form and the matter of knowledge, but for two reasons.

Its unit, the logical concept, is a manipulated product and the process of manipulation may be called abstraction.

The chewed material is then placed in a bowl, and water or coco - nut milk is poured over it, the whole is well stirred, and subsequently the woody matter is removed by an ingenious but simple mechanical manipulation.

In addition to the mills there are (1901) 178,000 hand-loom weavers in the province, who still have a position of their own in the manipulation of designs woven into the cloth.

For this purpose hydraulic mechanism of Bessemer's design was arranged under the control of an attendant, whose duty it was to keep watch on a spirit-level, and counteract by proper manipulation of the apparatus any deviation from the horizontal that might manifest itself on the floor of the saloon owing to the rolling of the vessel.

Stands were also in use, permitting the manipulation of the object by hand.

He seemed sincere, but it could have been an act - a manipulation.

Her gift for mind manipulation wasn't enough to influence the powerful God, and she'd found appeasing the lost young man and using the extent of her gift were both needed to influence him.

Jonny was slipping out of her ability to use it, in any case, though he seemed more vulnerable to her manipulation when he was emotionally raw.

She was small to make such demands, but he had learned from years of watching his mistresses plot that even a small woman was capable of great manipulation, deceit, and power.

Four studies used a sham chiropractic compared with true spinal manipulation came to no agreement.

The latter can too easily degenerate into psychic manipulation.

On the other hand, in agent-based simulations g t easily grows enormous, hindering any attempt at algebraic manipulation.

The point of considering the emotional aspects of gift behavior is not to expose human foibles, or to suggest methods of manipulation.

Extracting relationships from data, manipulation, solving simple equations, rearranging formulae.

Manipulation of growth factors and the endothelium holds promise for beneficial intervention in the range of diseases affecting the glomerulus.

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Manipulation always appears in the context of communication and the manipulator's intentions are covert, albeit not always insincere.

The research program will develop technologies for mineral separation using magnetic levitation, and for manipulation of nanomaterials using magnetic fields.