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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Manipulation \Ma*nip'u*la"tion\, noun [Cf. F. manipulation.]
1. The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.
Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind. --Whewell.
2. The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.
3. Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
manipulation
noun
1: exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" [syn: {use}]
2: the action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands [syn: {handling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "manipulation": accounting, action, agency, anal intercourse, analysis, artifice, authority, autoeroticism, automatic electronic navigation, bear raid, behind-the-scenes influence, bestiality, braking, buggery, bull raid, cabal, caressing, collusion, command, complicity, complot, computation, conduct, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, control, coordination, corner, corner in, counterplot, covin, cunnilingus, deep-laid plot, devices, direction, driving, employment, engineering, execution, exercise, expedients, exploitation, fact distribution, feeling, fellatio, fellation, finagling, finesse, fingering, forecasts, frame-up, friction, frottage, functioning, game, governance, government, guidance, hand job, handling, husbandry, influence, inspection, intrigue, irrumation, lead, leading, little game, machination, management, managery, managing, maneuvering, maneuvers, masturbation, monopoly, nonlinear calibrations, occupation, onanism, operancy, operation, oral-genital stimulation, ordering, output measurement, palpation, pederasty, performance, performing, petting, pilotage, plot, plotting, political influence, practice, pressure, processing, raid, record keeping, regulation, responsibility, rigging, rubbing, running, scheme, schemery, scheming, self-abuse, sodomy, steerage, steering, stratagem, stroking, supersonic flow detection, tactical maneuvers, tactics, the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, trick, underplot, using, utilization, wash sale, washing, web of intrigue, wire-pulling, work, working, workings
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