manipulatev.
/məˈnɪpjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /məˈnɪpjəˌleɪt/ 1. † a. intransitive. Chemistry. To handle apparatus, etc., in experiments; cf. manipulation n. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > handle equipment or apparatus [verb (intransitive)]
manipulate1827
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. Introd. p. iv Of two persons having otherwise equal talents..the one who manipulates best will very soon be in advance of the other.
b. transitive. gen. To handle, esp. with skill or dexterity; to turn, reposition, reshape, etc., manually or by means of a tool or machine.
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the world > action or operation > doing > do [verb (transitive)] > perform practical operations upon > with the hands
manipulate1834
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [verb (transitive)]
wind993
wieldOE
aweldc1175
bewieldc1200
demeanc1300
use1340
plya1393
governc1405
exercite1475
apply1531
manage1590
sway1609
manipulate1834
wage1836
the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > examine medically [verb (transitive)] > by touch
toucha1398
explore1689
manipulate1876
palpate1898
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 187/2 Or else, shut up in private Oratories, [they] meditate and manipulate the substances derived from her [sc. the earth].
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets ii. 5 Fraternity..has gone on, till it found itself unexpectedly manipulating guillotines by its chosen Robespierres.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 154 A turner with a piece of wood in his lathe, which he can manipulate to his liking.
1870 Echo 11 Nov. The time..when a photograph was admired simply because it was cleverly manipulated.
1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. vii. iii. 335 The hand has been moulded into fitness for manipulating things.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 179 He had promised..that he would refrain from manipulating contagious cases.
1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 250 You are no longer manipulating a tool. You and the tool have become magically one, fused in a common intelligence.
1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xiii. 169 Wimsey set the lock up before him, and began to manipulate the knob.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 38 I stood beside her, manipulating the stops of the harmonium and in particular glutting my appetite for the throbbing vox angelica.
1987 Which? Nov. 511/3 The burglar usually forced or manipulated the window catch.
c. transitive. To stimulate sexually with the hand (in quot. 1991, with the tongue). Also reflexive: to masturbate.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (transitive)] > stimulate genitals of (a person) > stimulate (genitals)
to play with ——1879
to bring off1916
manipulate1949
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > masturbate [verb (reflexive)]
masturbate1857
to play with ——1879
to toss off1879
frigc1890
touch1892
to jerk off1904
to pull off1909
jackc1930
diddle1960
to jack off1967
manipulate1971
1884 J. Smithson tr. F. C. Forberg Man. Classical Erotol. I. ii. 31 A woman shampoos your body all over with nimble skill; her trained hand manipulates all your members.
1949 O. Schwarz Psychol. of Sex ii. 31 The large majority of these children simply manipulate their genitals in a purely playful manner.
1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Female v. 161 The female may stimulate them [sc. the breasts] with her hand..while she simultaneously manipulates her genitalia.
1965 W. H. Masters & E. V. Johnson in J. Money Sex Research iv. 107 It is a rare woman who directly manipulates the clitoris, or, if she does, maintains this type of stimulative activity for any significant length of time.
1971 ‘V. X. Scott’ Surrogate Wife 134 At one point he began manipulating himself.
1991 L. Faderman Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers iii. 64 It was then that women learned about cunnilingus, manipulating ‘the boy in the boat’..with each other.
d. transitive. Medicine. To palpate or move (parts of the body) with the hands as a form of therapy, chiefly in chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy; esp. to produce specific passive movements of joints.
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1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Mar. 616 The osteopath..treats the patient through loose clothing... He does not rub or pat, but manipulates osteopathically.
1943 P. Lewin Backache & Sciatic Neuritis xii. 114 I prefer to manipulate the back, pelvis and legs while the patient is on the floor.
1992 Elle Jan. 84/1 Hellerwork, Rolfing and Feldenkrais [techniques] focus on deep-rooted stress and tension, and by manipulating the body, they restore its flexibility and ease of movement.
2.
a. transitive. To process, organize, or operate on mentally or logically; to handle with mental or intellectual skill.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > be skilled or versed in [verb (transitive)] > handle or treat with skill
use1545
manipulate1856
1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith i. ii. 68 Philosophy (as hitherto manipulated) has been an attempt to do [etc.].
1864 Sat. Rev. 31 Dec. 789/2 Nor are the questions..pleasant ones to manipulate.
1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (ed. 2) iii. 41 This [sc. the third inversion of the added ninth] is perhaps..the easiest to manipulate.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 185 Crassus understood nothing beyond the art of manipulating money.
1929 Amer. Math. Monthly 36 312 We shall indicate a surprising way in which these ciphers may be manipulated easily and quickly.
b. transitive. To alter or transform into something by manipulation.
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1892 T. H. Huxley in Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 601 This non-natural sense may..be manipulated into some sort of non-contradiction of scientific truth.
1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 91 Hamlet..is full of some stuff that the writer could not drag to light, contemplate, or manipulate into art.
1993 Sat. Night Dec. 12/1 Shopkeepers and secular humanists may have successfully manipulated Christmas into an amalgam of potent sentiment and orchestrated debt.
c. transitive. Computing. To carry out operations on (data) automatically or with the aid of a machine.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > enter data [verb (transitive)] > process
process1943
manipulate1962
batch-process1964
1962 Techn. Memo TM-WD-16/007/00 (System Development Corp., Calif.) i. 5 It is necessary to define the characteristics of a data base to the Data Base System so that when instructed to manipulate data, the system can recognize the format and positioning of item information in the entries.
1967 Proc. 21st National Conf. Assoc. Computing Machinery 465 (heading) META 5: a tool to manipulate strings of data.
1984 Which Micro? Dec. 26 (advt.) There is a..set of commands for..manipulating text.
1990 Atlantic Apr. 18/2 To retrieve data from a CD-ROM disk and manipulate it, a user will need a CD-ROM player.
3.
a. transitive. To manage, control, or influence in a subtle, devious, or underhand manner.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer > unfairly or for one's own advantage
play1656
manipulate1862
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > treat cunningly [verb (transitive)] > manage with cunning
puppet1840
manipulate1862
jockey1890
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > exploit or take advantage of
to take (the) advantagea1393
milk?1531
presume1580
to play upon ——1603
milch1614
to grow on or upona1616
play1656
impose1670
exploit1838
manipulate1862
over-exploit1899
slug1946
to get over1979
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xi. 358 He had got his Electors manipulated, tickled to his purpose.
1866 Totnes Election Comm., Minutes Evid. (1867) 73 Then who had manipulated Hill senior at the former elections?
1875 J. Morison in Expositor 1 358 The hypothesis that the quotation has been..freely manipulated.
1893 J. Chamberlain Speech House Commons 10 Apr. It will be possible for firms to manipulate their books.
1894 J. Fiske Hist. Amer. 399 Boards of canvassers were appointed for determining the results of disputed elections by manipulating the figures in counting the votes.
1949 I. Berlin Four Ess. Liberty (1969) i. 32 Having a superior understanding of the machinery of social behaviour and skill in manipulating it.
1976 E. Fromm To have or to Be? (1979) 12 Our thoughts, feelings and tastes manipulated by government and industry and the mass communications that they control.
1988 ‘R. Deacon’ Spyclopaedia 44 The Mukhabarat manipulated him to advance Libya's interests in Washington.
b. transitive. Finance. To cause (stocks, currency, a commodity, etc.) to rise or fall in value by affecting the market illicitly, improperly, or by contrived methods; to influence (the market) in such ways.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > influence the market
manipulate1870
squeeze1885
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 188 The stock..was most admirably manipulated, until it finally touched 152.
1903 S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 147 A market is rigged when it is manipulated.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 23 July 3/1 [Defrauding] the public by prematurely stopping the sale of the original stock issue, opening an aftermarket, manipulating the price of the stock upward and selling to customers from the firm trading account at or above the artificially high price.
1988 S. Quinn Mind of her Own x. 190 Hugo Stinnes..got rich manipulating the foreign currency he accumulated from selling the coal of the Ruhr Valley.
Derivatives
maˈnipulating n.
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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > performing practical operations > upon something
working?a1425
subaction1626
subagitation1653
manipulation1801
manipulating1868
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill in managing or directing > treating with skill
manipulating1868
1868 Radical Rule 198/2 He..was in possession of the whole secret of the manipulating of the perjured testimony.
1892 Athenæum 4 June 722/1 This manipulating of a language.
1994 Guardian 9 June ii. 10/5 The manipulating of image was sharply depicted in..Bonfire of the Vanities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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