manipulation

See also: Manipulation

Englisch

Etymology

From French manipulation, from Old French manipule, from Latin manipulus. Morphologically manipulate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˌnɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /məˌnɪp.jəˈlæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Nomen

manipulation (countable and uncountable, plural manipulations)

1. The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.

   The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.

2. The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.

   After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.

3. The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.

   The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.

   Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival.

Derived terms

• antimanipulation
• biomanipulation
• crowd manipulation
• electromanipulation
• immunomanipulation
• manipulational
• micromanipulation
• nanomanipulation
• nonmanipulation
• object manipulation
• photomanipulation
• postmanipulation
• psychomanipulation
• telemanipulation
• womanipulation

 

Translations

practice of manipulating

• Albanian: manipulim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَلَاعُب m (talāʕub), تَعْدِيل m (taʕdīl), تَغْيِير m (taḡyīr)
• Armenian: մանիպուլյացիա (hy) (manipulyacʻia)
• Belarusian: маніпуля́цыя f (manipuljácyja)
• Bulgarian: манипула́ция (bg) f (manipulácija)
• Catalan: manipulació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 操縱／操纵 (zh) (cāozòng), 運用／运用 (zh) (yùnyòng)

• Czech: manipulace (cs) f
• Danish: manipulation c
• Dutch: manipulatie (nl) f, gebruik (nl) n
• Estonian: manipulatsioon
• Finnish: manipulaatio (fi)
• French: manipulation (fr) f
• Galician: manipulación (gl) f
• Georgian: მანიპულაცია (maniṗulacia)
• German: Manipulation (de) f
• Greek: χειραγώγηση (el) f (cheiragógisi)
• Hungarian: manipuláció (hu)
• Indonesian: manipulasi (id)
• Italian: manipolazione (it) f
• Latvian: manipulācija f
• Lithuanian: manipuliacija f
• Macedonian: манипулација f (manipulacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: manipulasjon m

• Persian: دستکاری (fa) (dastkâri)
• Polish: manipulacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: manipulação (pt) f
• Romanian: manipulare (ro) f
• Russian: манипуля́ция (ru) f (manipuljácija), манипули́рование (ru) n (manipulírovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: манипула́ција f

  Roman: manipulácija (sh) f

• Slovak: manipulácia f
• Slovene: manipulacija f
• Spanish: manipulación (es) f
• Swedish: manipulation (sv) c
• Turkish: manipülasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: маніпуля́ція f (manipuljácija), маніпулюва́ння n (manipuljuvánnja)
• Vietnamese: sự thao tác (vi)
• West Frisian: manipulaasje c

skillful use of the hands

• Bulgarian: бора́вене n (borávene)
• Catalan: manipulació (ca) f
• Dutch: manipulatie (nl) f
• Galician: manipulación (gl) f
• Persian: دست‌ورزی (dast-varzi)
• Polish: manipulacja (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: манипула́ција f

  Roman: manipulácija (sh) f

• Ukrainian: маніпуля́ція f (manipuljácija)

devious management

• Armenian: ձեռնածություն (hy) (jeṙnacutʻyun), մեքենայություն (hy) (mekʻenayutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: подве́ждане n (podvéždane)
• Dutch: manipulatie (nl) f, misbruik (nl) n
• Finnish: manipulaatio (fi)
• French: manipulation (fr) f
• Galician: manipulación (gl) f
• German: Manipulierung f, Manipulieren n, Manipulation (de) f
• Hungarian: manipuláció (hu)
• Polish: manipulacja (pl) f
• Spanish: manipulación (es) f
• Ukrainian: маніпуля́ція f (manipuljácija)

See also

• pedipulation

French

Etymology

From manipuler +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ni.py.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Nomen

manipulation f (plural manipulations)

1. manipulation

Further reading

• “manipulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Nomen

manipulation c

1. manipulation

Declension

Declension of manipulation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	manipulation	manipulationen	manipulationer	manipulationerna
Genitive	manipulations	manipulationens	manipulationers	manipulationernas

Related terms

• manipulera (“manipulate”)

References

• manipulation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• manipulation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• manipulation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)