manipulation 
ma·nipu·la·tion (mə nip′yo̵̅o̅ lā′s̸hən, -yə-)
noun
a manipulating or being manipulated; skillful handling or operation, artful management or control, etc.
Etymology: Fr < manipuler, to manipulate < manipule, pharmacist's term for a handful, orig., a bundle of herbs < L manipulus: see maniple
Preposition: of
- embryo: Certainly the manipulation of early human embryos in similar fashion, to reproduce results done in animal experiments, would be completely unethical.
- spine: In fact manipulation of the spine, especially the neck, can be positively dangerous.
- molecule: Cold room space is amply supplied throughout the Department for the preparation and manipulation of biological molecules and organisms.
Converse of object
- perform: Sample code All the code necessary to perform these manipulations is given below.
- involve: Swedish Body Massage, dating from the early 19th century, involves the manipulation of the deep, soft tissue for therapeutic purposes.
- stack: The stack manipulations and mathematical operators are presented here.
- allow: We will not allow political manipulation of the National Health Service.
Adjective modifier
- spinal: Spinal Manipulation can be useful for the thoracic pain in the short term.
- algebraic: Use of symbols, basic algebraic manipulation, fractions.
- genetic: Many forms of genetic manipulation produce many, often hideous, failures during their trials.
- cynical: Its support for the cynical manipulation by the US of its power of veto in the UN Security Council is bringing increasing international condemnation.
- skillful: There is a belief that it was achieved more by skillful manipulation of the media than by effective police work.
- osteopathic: MacDonald, RS Dr. ( 1990 ): An open controlled assessment of osteopathic manipulation in non specific low back pain.
Modifies a noun
- routine: All fields other than the manipulation routines must already be initialized.
Noun used with modifier
- chiropractic: The effectiveness of chiropractic manipulation in the treatment of headache: an exploration of the literature.
- spaceage: The spaceage manipulation who encouraged reporters of the more what was going on.
- image: Image manipulation I'd like to find the website of this guy's career advisor.
- data: These codes also allow some data manipulation, eg adding spectra, multiplying by a constant, interpolation.
- matrix: Is it easier to write matrix manipulation programs visually or textually?
- string: Here is some nonsense string manipulation to give you an example of some of the methods.
The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called 'divine'creation.
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivativefromthispureactivitymanipulated bya sortof priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedomnow parallel in everydetail itsuseas a means of natural manipulation.
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