(v. t.) To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
(v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
(v. i.) To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
(4) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(5) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(6) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(7) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(8) The intracranial pressure can then be studied and experimentally manipulated.
(9) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(10) Although a similar conjugation of the B polysaccharide failed to substantially enhance its immunogenicity in mice, this could be achieved by further chemical manipulation of the basic structure of the B polysaccharide.
(11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(12) Thus, both energy intake and expenditure were manipulated to result in an energy deficit of 50 percent.
(13) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) Hogan-Howe said allegations, from three whistleblowers, that there is widespread manipulation of the figures are currently being investigated.
(16) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(17) Especially once the Libor scandal gave a clear signal of how markets could be manipulated.
(18) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
(19) Animals in Groups 2 and 3 underwent exposure and manipulation of the right ureter.
(20) Such analysis provides criteria, based on the response of the components to experimental manipulations, for identifying those aspects of the ERP recorded in other species that are analogous to specific ERP components recorded from human subjects.
Parse
Definition:
(n.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
Example Sentences:
(1) No matter their age or their entertainments of choice, I see in those who place themselves in the urbanised and reurbanised parts of Los Angeles a certain skill set that allows them to parse and thus access the city in a way their suburban predecessors couldn't have.
(2) This article addresses 2 questions that arise from the finding that visual scenes are first parsed into visual features: (a) the accumulation of location information about objects during their recognition and (b) the mechanism for the binding of the visual features.
(3) These snippets will be contested and pored over and parsed in the days to come.
(4) A search of these formulas and symbols in the basic index is next to impossible because the terms in this field are usually parsed to all alphanumeric characters without sensitivity to case.
(5) Back then there wasn't a treaty that couldn't be violated, a principle waived or a definition parsed in the defence of American power and pursuit of popular revenge .
(6) The program uses a memory-based semantic parsing technique to 'understand' the text.
(7) As Fox News parsed every second of Trump’s accession in Cleveland, Fox PR people batted away reporters keen to ask star anchor Megyn Kelly whether she had been sexually harassed by Ailes .
(8) The entry process of RGSS-ID is made mainly by selecting items; our system allows a radiologist to compose a sentence which can be completely parsed by the computer.
(9) To provide a testing ground for some of these ideas we have undertaken the development of SPECIALIST, a prototype system for parsing and accessing biomedical text.
(10) With investors parsing every word that comes out of each meeting, some would rather the Fed said less.
(11) Possible models of how listeners process pitch and duration information independently in making a parsing decision are discussed.
(12) The study findings suggest directions for innovative nursing practice and support Parse's theory as a useful perspective for the investigation of health experiences.
(13) Xenophobia – no longer closeted, parsed or packaged, but naked, bold and brazen – was given free rein.
(14) This paper examines the locative inferences as well as the integration of temporal, locative, and conceptual issues in the clinical record understanding domain by presenting an application that utilizes two key concepts in its parsing strategy--a knowledge-based parsing strategy and a minimal lexicon.
(15) To account for these results a model was proposed in which an input string is first parsed into syllablelike units, which are then recorded into speech.
(16) Cumberbatch has reached that level of fame where even the most throwaway remark is parsed for hidden meaning and rebroadcast to the world as a statement of the utmost importance.
(17) But it doesn’t take much parsing of words to understand the dynamic that is at play.
(18) Second, the representation in VSSP is parsed and categorized just prior to recall in a process called recovery.
(19) While Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson’s autobiography is parsed with Talmudic scrutiny, Paul, suffering from anemic poll numbers, only just escaped being bounced from Tuesday’s primetime Republican debate in Milwaukee.
(20) The purpose of this study was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of grieving a personal loss using Parse's research methodology.