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# manipulation

«manipulation» in Mova's school dictionary: **Controlling or influencing people in a clever and unfair…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (manipulation, manipulations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Controlling or influencing people in a clever and unfair way, so they do what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#m1)

2) Skilful handling or moving of something with the hands or a tool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#m2)

3) Changing information, numbers or pictures, sometimes to trick people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#m3)

4) (medicine) Moving or pressing body parts to treat them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In personal safety and friendship lessons, manipulation is a warning sign: guilt trips, threats, flattery or keeping secrets to control someone. In media literacy, «photo manipulation» and «data manipulation» can mislead. In maths, «algebraic manipulation» means rearranging expressions and equations. Phrases: «emotional manipulation», «photo manipulation», «algebraic manipulation».

### examples

- Saying «If you were my friend you'd do it» can be a kind of manipulation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x1)
- Photo manipulation can make a fake picture look real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x2)
- Algebraic manipulation helped us solve for y. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x3)
- Playing with clay improves children's manipulation of small objects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x4)
- The advert used clever manipulation of our feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x5)
- Data manipulation can make a graph tell a false story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x6)
- The physiotherapist used gentle manipulation on Dad's back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x7)
- Learning to spot manipulation keeps you safer online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/#x8)

### note

Countable and uncountable. Verb: manipulate; adjective: manipulative. Usually negative when about people, neutral when about hands, tools or maths. In maths problems, «manipulation» of an equation must keep both sides equal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manipulation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manipulation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.