Woodturners now manipulate pieces on the lathe; then they carve, cut, scorch, paint and sometimes use it as part of a grander construction.
Scientists have partially transformed brewer's yeast into another species by manipulating pieces of its chromosomes.
On "Random Access Memories," Daft Punk largely ditched the digital trickery of their old albums (where they used software and machines to sample and manipulate pieces of tracks).
Next I put together the procedures for manipulating the pieces: pick a tile, flip it, rotate it.
Years later it was revealed that his chess table concealed a human prodigy who could manipulate the pieces from underneath with magnets.
Quantum computers speed up operation by simultaneously storing and manipulating many pieces of classical information embedded in a quantum state of many quantum bits.
The analysis of execution time (time difference between end of command and full completion of action: touching or manipulating the pieces) was timed and measured in seconds.
If you have made any mistakes, manipulate the pieces until they're in the proper positions.
Wall's elaborately staged and digitally manipulated light-box pieces — many the size of the history paintings they allude to — include some of the most spectacular images in contemporary art ("The Flooded Grave," "A Sudden Gust of Wind," "Dead Troops Talk") as well as some of the most puzzling and peculiar.
And Mr. King may or may not be the face in the show's funniest work, a flat wall piece titled "Floss," whose open, toothy mouth, twisted to one side, is busily worked on by a pair of hands manipulating a piece of waxed string.
An important recurring theme in the early philosophical analysis of knowledge is the paradigm of manipulating a piece of wax: either by simply deforming it, by imprinting a signet ring in it or by writing characters on it.
