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Word Meanings - MANIPULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. 2. To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate

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1. To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. 2. To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

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  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • DERANGEMENT
    The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
  • DIRECTER
    One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • SHAPE
    is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • DERANGED
    Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
  • FASHION-MONGERING
    Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
  • FASHIONED
    Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
  • FASHION-MONGER
    One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
  • HUSBANDABLE
    Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
  • FASHIONABLY
    In a fashionable manner.
  • HUSBANDLESS
    Destitute of a husband. Shak.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • WIELDSOME
    Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
  • DIRECT NOMINATION
    The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
  • DIRECTRIX
    1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
  • TRAINING
    The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
  • CHANDLER
    of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
    The state of being moldy.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • MOLDER; MOULDER
    One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
  • SPINDLE-SHAPED
    Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
  • HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
    A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
  • DIAMOND-SHAPED
    Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
  • STRAP-SHAPED
    Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • MOLD; MOULD
    mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the
  • BED-MOLDING; BED-MOULDING
    The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.
  • PROTUBERATE
    To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.

 

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