Manipulate vs Wield - What's the difference?
manipulate | wield |
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
(label) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
*, Bk.V, Ch.7:
*:There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.
(label) To control, to guide or manage.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
*:With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends.
To handle with skill and ease, especially of a weapon or tool.
To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.