Manipulate vs Handling - What's the difference?
manipulate | handling |
To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
(medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
* Edmund Spenser
* 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
(arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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As verbs the difference between manipulate and handling
is that manipulate is to move, arrange or operate something using the hands while handling is .As a noun handling is
a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.manipulate
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(manipulat)See also
* pedipulate ----handling
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(wikipedia handling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
- at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings , &c.
- (Fairholt)