manipulate

[məˈnɪpjuleɪt]

Definition:
1. Influence or control shrewdly or deviously.
2. Hold something in one's hands and move it.
3. Fake or falsify.
4. Manipulate in a fraudulent manner.

Use 'manipulate' in a sentence:

1. I hate the way he manipulates people.
2. The way he can manipulate my leg has helped my arthritis so much.
3. We may be on the verge of a new era, when the PC will get up off the desktop and allow us to see, hear, touch and manipulate objects in places where we are not physically present.
4. Scientists would soon be able to manipulate human genes to control the aging process.
5. And why music can manipulate our emotions.
6. It looks to me like one more example of trying to manipulate people into taking care of themselves.
7. The history of human civilisation is entwined with the history of the ways we have learned to manipulate water resources.
8. Police and prosecutors manipulated the eyewitnesses so they would finger Aldo.
9. Culture is not something you manipulate easily.
10. Mediation flows can now manipulate SOAP headers.
11. Macdonald accepted that such information could be used to manipulate, to obfuscate, and to mislead.
12. Not trying to change or manipulate them.
13. Conceptual models represent and manipulate ideas.
14. The puppets are expertly manipulated by Liz Walker.
15. The relatively new discipline of molecular gastronomy, especially, relies on understanding the mechanics of aroma to manipulate flavor for maximum impact.
16. Do you know how to manipulate a computer?
17. You should never directly manipulate these tables.
18. If you're too concerned with outcomes to the extent that you manipulate and intimidate others to achieve those outcomes, then you aren't leading at all, you're dictating.
19. We don't have the strength of chimpanzees because we've given up animal strength to manipulate subtle instruments, like hammers, spears, and later pens and pencils.
20. She uses her charm to manipulate people.
21. The police force is being manipulated for political ends.
22. Manipulate the session data.
23. They managed to manipulate us into agreeing to help.
24. You can write programs that manipulate them.
25. They want to gain influence and manipulate.
26. cheat in accounting, manipulate financial records.
27. He is a very difficult character. He manipulates people.
28. Their research thus implies a different character model, which is supposed to manipulate the neural networks inside.
29. The designer and the inventor are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist.
30. In fact, he offers descriptions of how restaurants and food makers manipulate ingredients to reach the aptly named bliss point.
31. Studio bosses could also force bad roles on actors, and manipulate every single detail of, stars' images with their mammoth in-house publicity departments.
32. To test this hypothesis, researchers raised lobsters in the juvenile fourth and fifth stages of development in a laboratory environment in which the lobsters could manipulate oyster chips.
33. maintain, and manipulate the database to produce the relevant management information.
34. I firmly believe our strategy is being deliberately, cynically manipulated.
35. First coined in 2010 by user experience expert Harry Brignull, "dark patterns" is a catch-all term for practices that manipulate user interfaces to influence the decision-making ability of users.
36. As a politician, he knows how to manipulate public opinion.
37. usually organized in files that can be retrieved and manipulated to produce information.
38. Over the nine-month duration of the experiment, the youngsters did indeed learn how to manipulate the joystick and buttons.
39. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
40. She was unable, for once, to control and manipulate events.
41. Two sides almost never change: that you can manipulate people into self-sufficiency and that you can punish them into good citizenship.
42. He manipulates people and tries to bend them to his will.
43. Scientists would soon be able to manipulate human genes to control the ageing process.
44. The technology uses a pen to manipulate a computer.
45. Quotes can be manipulated and used out of context.
46. Primitive man quickly learned how to manipulate tools.
47. The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.