Definition of manipulate in English:

manipulate

verb məˈnɪpjʊleɪtməˈnɪpjəˌleɪt

[with object]

1Handle or control (a tool, mechanism, information, etc.) in a skilful manner.
（尤指熟练地）操作，使用（工具、机械装置等）
he manipulated the dials of the set
他操纵这套机器的调节旋钮。
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus, I was able to manipulate the ropes and free myself from them.
- With it they are able to manipulate objects as well as if they had hands.
- In art classes, each student explores and manipulates varied tools and mediums.
- One robotic arm is used to position the endoscope to provide visualisation of the operative site, while the other two robotic arms manipulate surgical instruments under the surgeon's control.
- The surgeon can perform intricate procedures by using joystick-like controls to manipulate the surgical instruments.
Synonyms
operate, handle, work, control, use, employ, utilize
1. 1.1 Alter, edit, or move (text or data) on a computer.
  （在计算机上）修改（或编辑、移动文档或数据）
  the pupils can manipulate the data or screen image
  Example sentencesExamples
  These programs enable you to manipulate text patches easily in all sorts of useful ways, and they have saved kernel developers many hours of tedious work.
  Each time data is moved or manipulated, the data blocks must be checked and rechecked for consistency.
  This behavior becomes very dangerous when people rely on a computer to store and manipulate important data but fail to back up those data.
  This is a big plus for anyone wishing to manipulate documents without needing to have the creator application present.
  She scans old family pictures or photographs her relatives with a digital camera, and manipulates the results by computer.
  The digital record can be edited and manipulated down to the level of single bits, just like genomic DNA.
  My diagnosis is that since he is on broadband cable Internet, and has no firewall, someone actually hacked into his computer and is manipulating his system just for kicks.
  In this form countless copies can be made, and, more importantly, images can be manipulated by computer in many appropriate ways.
  You can then create, edit and manipulate any audio files you like.
  The PC's ability to record, rip, store and manipulate audio and video makes it a great media server.
  Character devices, such as serial ports and keyboards, manipulate data as a stream of characters, or bytes, one at a time.
  Surgeons can also benefit from interactive software tools that allow them to manipulate information from previously acquired images.
  Rather than pass out memos or draw on whiteboards, workers use collaborative software to manipulate documents on plasma screens that also function as videoconference systems.
  However, even with these basic commands, you can successfully manipulate text files from within your own shell scripts or right from the command line.
  Java provides predefined methods for manipulating the indexed lists.
  Data, once entered, can be more easily manipulated, moved, modified, and deleted.
  Image editing software can manipulate and change digital images on the computer.
  They are the basic commands for manipulating both files and directories.
  For the last few years, Nuchi has been drawing with pixels, the smallest elements that can be manipulated using a computer.
  Finally, I have extensive experience using computers to manage and manipulate images, including type.
2. 1.2 Examine or treat (a part of the body) by feeling or moving it with the hand.
  推拿（身体部位）
  this system of healing is based on manipulating the ligaments of the spine
  以推拿脊柱韧带为基础的康复疗法。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The therapy was developed in France, but is rooted in the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, where pressure points relating to specific parts of the body are manipulated to alleviate particular problems.
  During a massage, a therapist manipulates your body's soft tissues - your muscles, skin and tendons - using his or her fingertips, hands and fists.
  Manual healing treats medical problems by manipulating and realigning body parts.
  Physicians use their hands to diagnose injury and illness and manipulate the musculoskeletal system to encourage the body to heal.
  While the patient's right hip was being manipulated during a physical examination, her pain abruptly disappeared, along with the tender mass.
  A trainer assists him with physical therapy, manipulating his body to prepare the joints for the rigors of swinging a golf club as violently as Woods does.
  Practitioners claim that gently manipulating the bones of the cranium can correct the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, by restoring the skull to its natural shape.
  By manipulating these pressure points, ancient Chinese physicians could treat the most complicated of disease.
  Gently manipulating parts of the body can help treat development disorders, sleeplessness, bed-wetting, allergies and asthma.
  Synonyms
  massage, rub, knead, feel, palpate
2Control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly or unscrupulously.
操纵，控制（人或局势）
the masses were deceived and manipulated by a tiny group
民众受到一小撮人的欺骗和操纵。
Example sentencesExamples
- Besides, it turned out the child in question was actually happier with his father, and the whole situation was manipulated by the mother.
- In most cases toddlers already know how to emotionally manipulate their parents and most stop crying very soon after the parent has left.
- We should always be trying to influence and manipulate our opponents - this is critical - but there is only so much we can do about that.
- He was gauging the class; calculating and deciding exactly how best manipulate the situation to his advantage.
- She knows her best strength is the way she can control and manipulate men.
- The man was described at Manchester Crown Court as a strict father who controlled and manipulated his children and was also in total charge of his wife.
- He's smart enough to be manipulating the situation to ensure that he stays in power.
- O'Neill knows how to manipulate situations to his team's advantage too.
- Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them.
- Don't allow judgmental and critical people to influence and manipulate you, as you are ready to make a final decision about the past.
- I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage
- During her visits with her mother, there's a suggestion that Ingrid is still somehow controlling or manipulating her confused child.
- And there are too many parties who think they can manipulate those incensed people for political advantage.
- It might've been the reason why he could manipulate people.
- There is a popular anti-corporate, progressive argument that sees market research and advertising as a sinister attempt to manipulate people.
- He manipulates people and events to suit his own purpose and any opposition to his will is seen as disloyalty.
- Machiavelli urged rulers to study human nature so that they could control politics by manipulating their subjects.
- It requires a seasoned politician to take advantage of a no-win situation and manipulate circumstances to drive home a point.
- She had manipulated me, controlled me, made me her tool, her minion, her puppet.
- So his little game of semantics backfires on him, a very interesting development indeed considering how clever he can be at manipulating a situation.
Synonyms
exploit, control, influence, use/turn to one's advantage, manoeuvre, engineer, steer, direct, guide, twist round one's little finger, work, orchestrate, choreograph
1. 2.1 Alter or present (data) so as to mislead.
  篡改（数据）；伪造（统计资料）
  nations may still be able to manipulate their own data
  Example sentencesExamples
  The seller controls and manipulates information about its products or services to influence buyer behavior.
  And he said many people in the security services were ‘disgusted with the way in which the government manipulated their information’.
  Instead he exaggerated, distorted, suppressed and manipulated the information for political ends.
  I don't agree that we should manipulate data, and present only bits of broader data, to perpetuate a political agenda using conjecture and not science.
  The misconduct involves companies manipulating the books to show profits that didn't exist.
  Yes, the headline numbers can be and will continue to be manipulated, massaged and presented in as bullish a light as possible.
  He was too innocent to manipulate the information I freely gave him.
  Market forces require businesses to manipulate information to stay in business, she says.
  Being able to manipulate words didn't seem like such an evil gift though.
  The court found that they had indeed libeled the good doctor by manipulating the facts to suit the story and he was awarded a million dollars plus.
  In this mad pursuit of history itself, the facts of the past in so far as they are known are blatantly manipulated and distorted.
  Synonyms
  falsify, rig, distort, alter, change, doctor, massage, juggle, tamper with, fiddle with, tinker with, interfere with, misrepresent, fudge, corrupt
  informal cook, fiddle

Derivatives

manipulability

noun məˌnɪpjʊləˈbɪlɪtiməˌnɪpjələˈbɪlədi

mass noun

1The quality of being able to be handled or controlled physically.
a drone offering far greater manipulability than conventional helicopters
1. 1.1 The quality of being able to be moved about; flexibility.
Example sentencesExamples
- The very idea of modern science, as Kass shows, ‘contains manipulability at its theoretical core.’
- Journalists grew self-conscious about the manipulability of information in an age of public relations and, as they learned in World War I, an age of propaganda.
- This playful work sets up themes that appear elsewhere, among them the manipulability of the technology of representation.
- the level of manipulability of our fingers and hands
- they keep us in a state of manipulability
- the manipulability of information
2The quality of being able to be influenced or controlled mentally.
1. 2.1 The quality of being able to be altered or edited, particularly so as to mislead.

manipulable

adjective məˈnɪpjʊləb(ə)lməˈnɪpjələb(ə)l

However, most of these investigations were done in the laboratory, where both animals and their environments are under control and manipulable.
Example sentencesExamples
- Performance indicators are always partial and are always manipulable.
- We'd like this material to be accessible and manipulable.
- Moreover, the rule is highly manipulable, depending, among other things, on how broadly or narrowly a court construes the field in question.
- They expressed growing doubts about what was manipulable.

manipulatable

adjective

Well they're only hackable or manipulatable if you give somebody the cards.
Example sentencesExamples
- Authorization in the form of possession of an appropriate password or ‘key’ is required to ‘decrypt’ the file and restore it to its manipulatable format.
- The CD-ROM features a manipulatable database of nearly 1,500 energy-related firms in the Houston region.
- If the body, and the material world at large become more manipulatable, more like a computer's memory, then the limiting factor will be the quality of the software that governs the manipulation.
- The girls all followed, smiling broadly at the notion of a cute, manipulatable guy staying in their house.

Origin

Early 19th century: back-formation from manipulation.

manage from mid 16th century:
Managers now manage businesses, but the first things to be managed were horses. The earliest sense of manage in English was ‘to handle or train a horse’, or put it through the exercises of the manège (mid 17th century). This French word, used in English to mean ‘an area in which horses and riders are trained’ and ‘horsemanship’, is at root the same word as manage—both go back through Italian to Latin manus ‘hand’, the source also of manacles (Middle English) which restrain your hands; manicure (late 19th century) care of your hands; manipulate (early 19th century) to handle something; manner; manoeuvre; manual (Late Middle English) either done with your hands or a handbook; and manuscript (late 16th century) something written by hand.

Rhymes

stipulate

Definition of manipulate in US English:

manipulate

verbməˈnipyəˌlātməˈnɪpjəˌleɪt

[with object]

1Handle or control (a tool, mechanism, etc.), typically in a skillful manner.
（尤指熟练地）操作，使用（工具、机械装置等）
he manipulated the dials of the set
他操纵这套机器的调节旋钮。
Example sentencesExamples
- The surgeon can perform intricate procedures by using joystick-like controls to manipulate the surgical instruments.
- Thus, I was able to manipulate the ropes and free myself from them.
- With it they are able to manipulate objects as well as if they had hands.
- In art classes, each student explores and manipulates varied tools and mediums.
- One robotic arm is used to position the endoscope to provide visualisation of the operative site, while the other two robotic arms manipulate surgical instruments under the surgeon's control.
Synonyms
operate, handle, work, control, use, employ, utilize
1. 1.1 Alter, edit, or move (text or data) on a computer.
  （在计算机上）修改（或编辑、移动文档或数据）
  Example sentencesExamples
  In this form countless copies can be made, and, more importantly, images can be manipulated by computer in many appropriate ways.
  She scans old family pictures or photographs her relatives with a digital camera, and manipulates the results by computer.
  This is a big plus for anyone wishing to manipulate documents without needing to have the creator application present.
  Rather than pass out memos or draw on whiteboards, workers use collaborative software to manipulate documents on plasma screens that also function as videoconference systems.
  Character devices, such as serial ports and keyboards, manipulate data as a stream of characters, or bytes, one at a time.
  These programs enable you to manipulate text patches easily in all sorts of useful ways, and they have saved kernel developers many hours of tedious work.
  Java provides predefined methods for manipulating the indexed lists.
  However, even with these basic commands, you can successfully manipulate text files from within your own shell scripts or right from the command line.
  Data, once entered, can be more easily manipulated, moved, modified, and deleted.
  My diagnosis is that since he is on broadband cable Internet, and has no firewall, someone actually hacked into his computer and is manipulating his system just for kicks.
  This behavior becomes very dangerous when people rely on a computer to store and manipulate important data but fail to back up those data.
  Surgeons can also benefit from interactive software tools that allow them to manipulate information from previously acquired images.
  Each time data is moved or manipulated, the data blocks must be checked and rechecked for consistency.
  The PC's ability to record, rip, store and manipulate audio and video makes it a great media server.
  For the last few years, Nuchi has been drawing with pixels, the smallest elements that can be manipulated using a computer.
  Finally, I have extensive experience using computers to manage and manipulate images, including type.
  They are the basic commands for manipulating both files and directories.
  Image editing software can manipulate and change digital images on the computer.
  You can then create, edit and manipulate any audio files you like.
  The digital record can be edited and manipulated down to the level of single bits, just like genomic DNA.
2. 1.2 Examine or treat (a part of the body) by feeling or moving it with the hand.
  推拿（身体部位）
  a system of healing based on manipulating the ligaments of the spine
  以推拿脊柱韧带为基础的康复疗法。
  Example sentencesExamples
  By manipulating these pressure points, ancient Chinese physicians could treat the most complicated of disease.
  During a massage, a therapist manipulates your body's soft tissues - your muscles, skin and tendons - using his or her fingertips, hands and fists.
  While the patient's right hip was being manipulated during a physical examination, her pain abruptly disappeared, along with the tender mass.
  A trainer assists him with physical therapy, manipulating his body to prepare the joints for the rigors of swinging a golf club as violently as Woods does.
  Practitioners claim that gently manipulating the bones of the cranium can correct the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, by restoring the skull to its natural shape.
  Gently manipulating parts of the body can help treat development disorders, sleeplessness, bed-wetting, allergies and asthma.
  Manual healing treats medical problems by manipulating and realigning body parts.
  Physicians use their hands to diagnose injury and illness and manipulate the musculoskeletal system to encourage the body to heal.
  The therapy was developed in France, but is rooted in the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, where pressure points relating to specific parts of the body are manipulated to alleviate particular problems.
  Synonyms
  massage, rub, knead, feel, palpate
2Control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.
操纵，控制（人或局势）
the masses were deceived and manipulated by a tiny group
民众受到一小撮人的欺骗和操纵。
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a popular anti-corporate, progressive argument that sees market research and advertising as a sinister attempt to manipulate people.
- Don't allow judgmental and critical people to influence and manipulate you, as you are ready to make a final decision about the past.
- He's smart enough to be manipulating the situation to ensure that he stays in power.
- O'Neill knows how to manipulate situations to his team's advantage too.
- So his little game of semantics backfires on him, a very interesting development indeed considering how clever he can be at manipulating a situation.
- It requires a seasoned politician to take advantage of a no-win situation and manipulate circumstances to drive home a point.
- It might've been the reason why he could manipulate people.
- Machiavelli urged rulers to study human nature so that they could control politics by manipulating their subjects.
- During her visits with her mother, there's a suggestion that Ingrid is still somehow controlling or manipulating her confused child.
- I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage
- In most cases toddlers already know how to emotionally manipulate their parents and most stop crying very soon after the parent has left.
- Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them.
- And there are too many parties who think they can manipulate those incensed people for political advantage.
- Besides, it turned out the child in question was actually happier with his father, and the whole situation was manipulated by the mother.
- She knows her best strength is the way she can control and manipulate men.
- He manipulates people and events to suit his own purpose and any opposition to his will is seen as disloyalty.
- We should always be trying to influence and manipulate our opponents - this is critical - but there is only so much we can do about that.
- The man was described at Manchester Crown Court as a strict father who controlled and manipulated his children and was also in total charge of his wife.
- She had manipulated me, controlled me, made me her tool, her minion, her puppet.
- He was gauging the class; calculating and deciding exactly how best manipulate the situation to his advantage.
Synonyms
exploit, control, influence, turn to one's advantage, use to one's advantage, manoeuvre, engineer, steer, direct, guide, twist round one's little finger, work, orchestrate, choreograph
1. 2.1 Alter (data) or present (statistics) so as to mislead.
  篡改（数据）；伪造（统计资料）
  Example sentencesExamples
  And he said many people in the security services were ‘disgusted with the way in which the government manipulated their information’.
  Market forces require businesses to manipulate information to stay in business, she says.
  He was too innocent to manipulate the information I freely gave him.
  In this mad pursuit of history itself, the facts of the past in so far as they are known are blatantly manipulated and distorted.
  The misconduct involves companies manipulating the books to show profits that didn't exist.
  The court found that they had indeed libeled the good doctor by manipulating the facts to suit the story and he was awarded a million dollars plus.
  Instead he exaggerated, distorted, suppressed and manipulated the information for political ends.
  Yes, the headline numbers can be and will continue to be manipulated, massaged and presented in as bullish a light as possible.
  The seller controls and manipulates information about its products or services to influence buyer behavior.
  Being able to manipulate words didn't seem like such an evil gift though.
  I don't agree that we should manipulate data, and present only bits of broader data, to perpetuate a political agenda using conjecture and not science.
  Synonyms
  falsify, rig, distort, alter, change, doctor, massage, juggle, tamper with, fiddle with, tinker with, interfere with, misrepresent, fudge, corrupt

Origin

Early 19th century: back-formation from manipulation.

词汇	manipulate
释义	Definition of manipulate in English: manipulate verb məˈnɪpjʊleɪtməˈnɪpjəˌleɪt [with object] 1Handle or control (a tool, mechanism, information, etc.) in a skilful manner. （尤指熟练地）操作，使用（工具、机械装置等） he manipulated the dials of the set 他操纵这套机器的调节旋钮。 Example sentencesExamples Thus, I was able to manipulate the ropes and free myself from them. With it they are able to manipulate objects as well as if they had hands. In art classes, each student explores and manipulates varied tools and mediums. One robotic arm is used to position the endoscope to provide visualisation of the operative site, while the other two robotic arms manipulate surgical instruments under the surgeon's control. The surgeon can perform intricate procedures by using joystick-like controls to manipulate the surgical instruments. Synonyms operate, handle, work, control, use, employ, utilize 1.1 Alter, edit, or move (text or data) on a computer. （在计算机上）修改（或编辑、移动文档或数据） the pupils can manipulate the data or screen image Example sentencesExamples These programs enable you to manipulate text patches easily in all sorts of useful ways, and they have saved kernel developers many hours of tedious work. Each time data is moved or manipulated, the data blocks must be checked and rechecked for consistency. This behavior becomes very dangerous when people rely on a computer to store and manipulate important data but fail to back up those data. This is a big plus for anyone wishing to manipulate documents without needing to have the creator application present. She scans old family pictures or photographs her relatives with a digital camera, and manipulates the results by computer. The digital record can be edited and manipulated down to the level of single bits, just like genomic DNA. My diagnosis is that since he is on broadband cable Internet, and has no firewall, someone actually hacked into his computer and is manipulating his system just for kicks. In this form countless copies can be made, and, more importantly, images can be manipulated by computer in many appropriate ways. You can then create, edit and manipulate any audio files you like. The PC's ability to record, rip, store and manipulate audio and video makes it a great media server. Character devices, such as serial ports and keyboards, manipulate data as a stream of characters, or bytes, one at a time. Surgeons can also benefit from interactive software tools that allow them to manipulate information from previously acquired images. Rather than pass out memos or draw on whiteboards, workers use collaborative software to manipulate documents on plasma screens that also function as videoconference systems. However, even with these basic commands, you can successfully manipulate text files from within your own shell scripts or right from the command line. Java provides predefined methods for manipulating the indexed lists. Data, once entered, can be more easily manipulated, moved, modified, and deleted. Image editing software can manipulate and change digital images on the computer. They are the basic commands for manipulating both files and directories. For the last few years, Nuchi has been drawing with pixels, the smallest elements that can be manipulated using a computer. Finally, I have extensive experience using computers to manage and manipulate images, including type. 1.2 Examine or treat (a part of the body) by feeling or moving it with the hand. 推拿（身体部位） this system of healing is based on manipulating the ligaments of the spine 以推拿脊柱韧带为基础的康复疗法。 Example sentencesExamples The therapy was developed in France, but is rooted in the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, where pressure points relating to specific parts of the body are manipulated to alleviate particular problems. During a massage, a therapist manipulates your body's soft tissues - your muscles, skin and tendons - using his or her fingertips, hands and fists. Manual healing treats medical problems by manipulating and realigning body parts. Physicians use their hands to diagnose injury and illness and manipulate the musculoskeletal system to encourage the body to heal. While the patient's right hip was being manipulated during a physical examination, her pain abruptly disappeared, along with the tender mass. A trainer assists him with physical therapy, manipulating his body to prepare the joints for the rigors of swinging a golf club as violently as Woods does. Practitioners claim that gently manipulating the bones of the cranium can correct the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, by restoring the skull to its natural shape. By manipulating these pressure points, ancient Chinese physicians could treat the most complicated of disease. Gently manipulating parts of the body can help treat development disorders, sleeplessness, bed-wetting, allergies and asthma. Synonyms massage, rub, knead, feel, palpate 2Control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly or unscrupulously. 操纵，控制（人或局势） the masses were deceived and manipulated by a tiny group 民众受到一小撮人的欺骗和操纵。 Example sentencesExamples Besides, it turned out the child in question was actually happier with his father, and the whole situation was manipulated by the mother. In most cases toddlers already know how to emotionally manipulate their parents and most stop crying very soon after the parent has left. We should always be trying to influence and manipulate our opponents - this is critical - but there is only so much we can do about that. He was gauging the class; calculating and deciding exactly how best manipulate the situation to his advantage. She knows her best strength is the way she can control and manipulate men. The man was described at Manchester Crown Court as a strict father who controlled and manipulated his children and was also in total charge of his wife. He's smart enough to be manipulating the situation to ensure that he stays in power. O'Neill knows how to manipulate situations to his team's advantage too. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. Don't allow judgmental and critical people to influence and manipulate you, as you are ready to make a final decision about the past. I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage During her visits with her mother, there's a suggestion that Ingrid is still somehow controlling or manipulating her confused child. And there are too many parties who think they can manipulate those incensed people for political advantage. It might've been the reason why he could manipulate people. There is a popular anti-corporate, progressive argument that sees market research and advertising as a sinister attempt to manipulate people. He manipulates people and events to suit his own purpose and any opposition to his will is seen as disloyalty. Machiavelli urged rulers to study human nature so that they could control politics by manipulating their subjects. It requires a seasoned politician to take advantage of a no-win situation and manipulate circumstances to drive home a point. She had manipulated me, controlled me, made me her tool, her minion, her puppet. So his little game of semantics backfires on him, a very interesting development indeed considering how clever he can be at manipulating a situation. Synonyms exploit, control, influence, use/turn to one's advantage, manoeuvre, engineer, steer, direct, guide, twist round one's little finger, work, orchestrate, choreograph 2.1 Alter or present (data) so as to mislead. 篡改（数据）；伪造（统计资料） nations may still be able to manipulate their own data Example sentencesExamples The seller controls and manipulates information about its products or services to influence buyer behavior. And he said many people in the security services were ‘disgusted with the way in which the government manipulated their information’. Instead he exaggerated, distorted, suppressed and manipulated the information for political ends. I don't agree that we should manipulate data, and present only bits of broader data, to perpetuate a political agenda using conjecture and not science. The misconduct involves companies manipulating the books to show profits that didn't exist. Yes, the headline numbers can be and will continue to be manipulated, massaged and presented in as bullish a light as possible. He was too innocent to manipulate the information I freely gave him. Market forces require businesses to manipulate information to stay in business, she says. Being able to manipulate words didn't seem like such an evil gift though. The court found that they had indeed libeled the good doctor by manipulating the facts to suit the story and he was awarded a million dollars plus. In this mad pursuit of history itself, the facts of the past in so far as they are known are blatantly manipulated and distorted. Synonyms falsify, rig, distort, alter, change, doctor, massage, juggle, tamper with, fiddle with, tinker with, interfere with, misrepresent, fudge, corrupt informal cook, fiddle Derivatives manipulability noun məˌnɪpjʊləˈbɪlɪtiməˌnɪpjələˈbɪlədi mass noun 1The quality of being able to be handled or controlled physically. a drone offering far greater manipulability than conventional helicopters 1.1 The quality of being able to be moved about; flexibility. Example sentencesExamples The very idea of modern science, as Kass shows, ‘contains manipulability at its theoretical core.’ Journalists grew self-conscious about the manipulability of information in an age of public relations and, as they learned in World War I, an age of propaganda. This playful work sets up themes that appear elsewhere, among them the manipulability of the technology of representation. the level of manipulability of our fingers and hands they keep us in a state of manipulability the manipulability of information 2The quality of being able to be influenced or controlled mentally. 2.1 The quality of being able to be altered or edited, particularly so as to mislead. manipulable adjective məˈnɪpjʊləb(ə)lməˈnɪpjələb(ə)l However, most of these investigations were done in the laboratory, where both animals and their environments are under control and manipulable. Example sentencesExamples Performance indicators are always partial and are always manipulable. We'd like this material to be accessible and manipulable. Moreover, the rule is highly manipulable, depending, among other things, on how broadly or narrowly a court construes the field in question. They expressed growing doubts about what was manipulable. manipulatable adjective Well they're only hackable or manipulatable if you give somebody the cards. Example sentencesExamples Authorization in the form of possession of an appropriate password or ‘key’ is required to ‘decrypt’ the file and restore it to its manipulatable format. The CD-ROM features a manipulatable database of nearly 1,500 energy-related firms in the Houston region. If the body, and the material world at large become more manipulatable, more like a computer's memory, then the limiting factor will be the quality of the software that governs the manipulation. The girls all followed, smiling broadly at the notion of a cute, manipulatable guy staying in their house. Origin Early 19th century: back-formation from manipulation. manage from mid 16th century: Managers now manage businesses, but the first things to be managed were horses. The earliest sense of manage in English was ‘to handle or train a horse’, or put it through the exercises of the manège (mid 17th century). This French word, used in English to mean ‘an area in which horses and riders are trained’ and ‘horsemanship’, is at root the same word as manage—both go back through Italian to Latin manus ‘hand’, the source also of manacles (Middle English) which restrain your hands; manicure (late 19th century) care of your hands; manipulate (early 19th century) to handle something; manner; manoeuvre; manual (Late Middle English) either done with your hands or a handbook; and manuscript (late 16th century) something written by hand. Rhymes stipulate Definition of manipulate in US English: manipulate verbməˈnipyəˌlātməˈnɪpjəˌleɪt [with object] 1Handle or control (a tool, mechanism, etc.), typically in a skillful manner. （尤指熟练地）操作，使用（工具、机械装置等） he manipulated the dials of the set 他操纵这套机器的调节旋钮。 Example sentencesExamples The surgeon can perform intricate procedures by using joystick-like controls to manipulate the surgical instruments. Thus, I was able to manipulate the ropes and free myself from them. With it they are able to manipulate objects as well as if they had hands. In art classes, each student explores and manipulates varied tools and mediums. One robotic arm is used to position the endoscope to provide visualisation of the operative site, while the other two robotic arms manipulate surgical instruments under the surgeon's control. Synonyms operate, handle, work, control, use, employ, utilize 1.1 Alter, edit, or move (text or data) on a computer. （在计算机上）修改（或编辑、移动文档或数据） Example sentencesExamples In this form countless copies can be made, and, more importantly, images can be manipulated by computer in many appropriate ways. She scans old family pictures or photographs her relatives with a digital camera, and manipulates the results by computer. This is a big plus for anyone wishing to manipulate documents without needing to have the creator application present. Rather than pass out memos or draw on whiteboards, workers use collaborative software to manipulate documents on plasma screens that also function as videoconference systems. Character devices, such as serial ports and keyboards, manipulate data as a stream of characters, or bytes, one at a time. These programs enable you to manipulate text patches easily in all sorts of useful ways, and they have saved kernel developers many hours of tedious work. Java provides predefined methods for manipulating the indexed lists. However, even with these basic commands, you can successfully manipulate text files from within your own shell scripts or right from the command line. Data, once entered, can be more easily manipulated, moved, modified, and deleted. My diagnosis is that since he is on broadband cable Internet, and has no firewall, someone actually hacked into his computer and is manipulating his system just for kicks. This behavior becomes very dangerous when people rely on a computer to store and manipulate important data but fail to back up those data. Surgeons can also benefit from interactive software tools that allow them to manipulate information from previously acquired images. Each time data is moved or manipulated, the data blocks must be checked and rechecked for consistency. The PC's ability to record, rip, store and manipulate audio and video makes it a great media server. For the last few years, Nuchi has been drawing with pixels, the smallest elements that can be manipulated using a computer. Finally, I have extensive experience using computers to manage and manipulate images, including type. They are the basic commands for manipulating both files and directories. Image editing software can manipulate and change digital images on the computer. You can then create, edit and manipulate any audio files you like. The digital record can be edited and manipulated down to the level of single bits, just like genomic DNA. 1.2 Examine or treat (a part of the body) by feeling or moving it with the hand. 推拿（身体部位） a system of healing based on manipulating the ligaments of the spine 以推拿脊柱韧带为基础的康复疗法。 Example sentencesExamples By manipulating these pressure points, ancient Chinese physicians could treat the most complicated of disease. During a massage, a therapist manipulates your body's soft tissues - your muscles, skin and tendons - using his or her fingertips, hands and fists. While the patient's right hip was being manipulated during a physical examination, her pain abruptly disappeared, along with the tender mass. A trainer assists him with physical therapy, manipulating his body to prepare the joints for the rigors of swinging a golf club as violently as Woods does. Practitioners claim that gently manipulating the bones of the cranium can correct the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, by restoring the skull to its natural shape. Gently manipulating parts of the body can help treat development disorders, sleeplessness, bed-wetting, allergies and asthma. Manual healing treats medical problems by manipulating and realigning body parts. Physicians use their hands to diagnose injury and illness and manipulate the musculoskeletal system to encourage the body to heal. The therapy was developed in France, but is rooted in the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture, where pressure points relating to specific parts of the body are manipulated to alleviate particular problems. Synonyms massage, rub, knead, feel, palpate 2Control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously. 操纵，控制（人或局势） the masses were deceived and manipulated by a tiny group 民众受到一小撮人的欺骗和操纵。 Example sentencesExamples There is a popular anti-corporate, progressive argument that sees market research and advertising as a sinister attempt to manipulate people. Don't allow judgmental and critical people to influence and manipulate you, as you are ready to make a final decision about the past. He's smart enough to be manipulating the situation to ensure that he stays in power. O'Neill knows how to manipulate situations to his team's advantage too. So his little game of semantics backfires on him, a very interesting development indeed considering how clever he can be at manipulating a situation. It requires a seasoned politician to take advantage of a no-win situation and manipulate circumstances to drive home a point. It might've been the reason why he could manipulate people. Machiavelli urged rulers to study human nature so that they could control politics by manipulating their subjects. During her visits with her mother, there's a suggestion that Ingrid is still somehow controlling or manipulating her confused child. I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage In most cases toddlers already know how to emotionally manipulate their parents and most stop crying very soon after the parent has left. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. And there are too many parties who think they can manipulate those incensed people for political advantage. Besides, it turned out the child in question was actually happier with his father, and the whole situation was manipulated by the mother. She knows her best strength is the way she can control and manipulate men. He manipulates people and events to suit his own purpose and any opposition to his will is seen as disloyalty. We should always be trying to influence and manipulate our opponents - this is critical - but there is only so much we can do about that. The man was described at Manchester Crown Court as a strict father who controlled and manipulated his children and was also in total charge of his wife. She had manipulated me, controlled me, made me her tool, her minion, her puppet. He was gauging the class; calculating and deciding exactly how best manipulate the situation to his advantage. Synonyms exploit, control, influence, turn to one's advantage, use to one's advantage, manoeuvre, engineer, steer, direct, guide, twist round one's little finger, work, orchestrate, choreograph 2.1 Alter (data) or present (statistics) so as to mislead. 篡改（数据）；伪造（统计资料） Example sentencesExamples And he said many people in the security services were ‘disgusted with the way in which the government manipulated their information’. Market forces require businesses to manipulate information to stay in business, she says. He was too innocent to manipulate the information I freely gave him. In this mad pursuit of history itself, the facts of the past in so far as they are known are blatantly manipulated and distorted. The misconduct involves companies manipulating the books to show profits that didn't exist. The court found that they had indeed libeled the good doctor by manipulating the facts to suit the story and he was awarded a million dollars plus. Instead he exaggerated, distorted, suppressed and manipulated the information for political ends. Yes, the headline numbers can be and will continue to be manipulated, massaged and presented in as bullish a light as possible. The seller controls and manipulates information about its products or services to influence buyer behavior. Being able to manipulate words didn't seem like such an evil gift though. I don't agree that we should manipulate data, and present only bits of broader data, to perpetuate a political agenda using conjecture and not science. Synonyms falsify, rig, distort, alter, change, doctor, massage, juggle, tamper with, fiddle with, tinker with, interfere with, misrepresent, fudge, corrupt Origin Early 19th century: back-formation from manipulation.
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