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
Additional info about word: MANIPULATE
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MANIPULATE)
- Handle
- Feel
- treat
- use
- manage
- manipulate
- touch
- wield
- discuss
- Manage
- control
- conduct
- administer
- mould
- regulate
- contrive
- train
- husband
- direct
- Mold
- Fashion
- shape
- for
- cast
- configure
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MANIPULATE)
- Neglect
- abandon
- license
- berate
- free
- mismanage
- misconduct
- Pervert
- distort
- misadapt
- misdelineate
- derange
- discompose
- misconstrue
- misproduce
- caricature
Related words: (words related to MANIPULATE)
- 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.