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Definition of Manipulating
1. manipulate [v] - See also: manipulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manipulating
Literary usage of Manipulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1907)
"3. Need of the financial middleman. § 4. Earning capacity the true basis of
Capitalisation. § 5. The art of promotion. § 6. manipulating the share markets. ..."
2. Time Studies as a Basis for Rate Setting by Dwight V. Merrick (1919)
"CHAPTER X SETTING TOOLS AND manipulating BORING MILL TO START CUTS WHEN the
preparatory operations of landing the work on the boring-mill table and the ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Methods — A Man Who Laughs at Holts and Bars — A Bewildering Mystery—manipulating
a Thumb-Bolt — Watching the Hotel Register — Disastrous Female Vanity ..."
4. Plant-breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1912)
"H. manipulating THE FLOWERS. We are now familiar with the essential principles
in the pollination of flowers. Before a person proceeds to operate upon a ..."
5. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1884)
"On manipulating his head, a sensation was felt as if a small round piece of the
thin part of the bone in that region had been broken loose; ..."
6. The Cost of Our National Government: A Study in Political Pathology by Henry Jones Ford (1910)
"... complicate still further the business methods of the departments and to swell
the cost of government by manipulating appropriations in aid of patronage. ..."
7. Notes on Metallurgical Analysis: Arranged for Students in Metallurgical by Nathaniel Wright Lord (1903)
"manipulating the Apparatus.—The measuring tube should be thoroughly clean and
the apparatus set up as shown. It is convenient to have it permanently placed ..."
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