Manipulate vs Simplify - What's the difference?
manipulate | simplify |
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
To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
To become simpler.
* 2006 , Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund (editors), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context , Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-0955-7, page 126:
In transitive terms the difference between manipulate and simplify
is that manipulate is to influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something while simplify is to make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.manipulate
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(manipulat)See also
* pedipulate ----simplify
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(en-verb)- Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.