'Manipulation' definitions:
Definition of 'manipulation'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Manipulation'
From: GCIDE
- Manipulation \Ma*nip`u*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. manipulation.]
- 1. The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art. [1913 Webster]
- Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The use of the hands in mesmeric operations. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'manipulation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accounting,
- action,
- agency,
- anal intercourse,
- analysis,
- artifice,
- authority,
- autoeroticism,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- bear raid,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- bestiality,
- braking,
- buggery,
- bull raid,
- cabal,
- caressing,
- collusion,
- command,
- complicity,
- complot,
- computation,
- conduct,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- control,
- coordination,
- corner,
- corner in,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- cunnilingus,
- deep-laid plot,
- devices,
- direction,
- driving,
- employment,
- engineering,
- execution,
- exercise,
- expedients,
- exploitation,
- fact distribution,
- feeling,
- fellatio,
- fellation,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- fingering,
- forecasts,
- frame-up,
- friction,
- frottage,
- functioning,
- game,
- governance,
- government,
- guidance,
- hand job,
- handling,
- husbandry,
- influence,
- inspection,
- intrigue,
- irrumation,
- lead,
- leading,
- little game,
- machination,
- management,
- managery,
- managing,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- masturbation,
- monopoly,
- nonlinear calibrations,
- occupation,
- onanism,
- operancy,
- operation,
- oral-genital stimulation,
- ordering,
- output measurement,
- palpation,
- pederasty,
- performance,
- performing,
- petting,
- pilotage,
- plot,
- plotting,
- political influence,
- practice,
- pressure,
- processing,
- raid,
- record keeping,
- regulation,
- responsibility,
- rigging,
- rubbing,
- running,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- self-abuse,
- sodomy,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stratagem,
- stroking,
- supersonic flow detection,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- the conn,
- the helm,
- the wheel,
- touching,
- trick,
- underplot,
- using,
- utilization,
- wash sale,
- washing,
- web of intrigue,
- wire-pulling,
- work,
- working,
- workings