Control vs. Manipulate: What's the Difference?

To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct

To move, arrange, operate, or control by the hands or another body part or by mechanical means, especially in a skillful manner

To adjust to a requirement; regulate

To influence or manage shrewdly or deviously

To hold in restraint; check

To tamper with or falsify for personal gain

To reduce or prevent the spread of

(Medicine) To handle and move in an examination or for therapeutic purposes

To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.

(transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands

To verify (a financial account, for example) by using a duplicate register for comparison.

(transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something

Authority or ability to manage or direct

To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose

One that controls; a controlling agent, device, or organization.

(transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use

An instrument.

To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.

Controls A set of such instruments.

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.

A restraining device, measure, or limit; a curb

To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns; to manipulate the stock market.

A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of a scientific experiment.

To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work;

An individual or group used as a standard of comparison in a scientific experiment, as a group of subjects given an inactive substance in an experiment testing a new drug administered to another group of subjects.

Influence or control shrewdly or deviously;

An intelligence agent who supervises or instructs another agent.

Hold something in one's hands and move it

A spirit presumed to speak or act through a medium.

Fake or falsify;

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

Manipulate in a fraudulent manner;

(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage;

To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.

Treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed

To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.

(transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.

Influence or authority over something.

The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

A control group or control experiment.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box Ctrl.

(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.

A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.

A checkpoint along an audax route.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;

Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

In research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.

The part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.

The group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

To assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control{7}.

Power to direct or determine;

A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another;

(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc;

A standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment;

The activity of managing or exerting control over something;

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another;

Discipline in personal and social activities;

Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity;

The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.;

A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine;

A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance

Exercise authoritative control or power over;

Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;

Handle and cause to function;

Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage;

Verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments;

Verify by using a duplicate register for comparison;

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;

Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of;