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Etymology

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Clipping of manipulation.

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Noun

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manip (plural manips)

  1. manipulation
    RNG manip
  2. A photomanip.

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French

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Etymology

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Clipping of manipulation.

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  • IPA(key): /ma.nip/
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manip f (plural manips)

  1. (informal) a manipulation

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Univerbation of (if) +‎ (not) +‎ ba (may be, third-person singular present subjunctive)

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Verb

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manip

  1. if … is not, unless … is
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10a5
      Mainip in chrud so bid anglan for cland, .i. a lliles dind ancretmiuch bid ancretmech.
      Unless it is in this way, your children will be unclean, i.e. whatever follows the unbelieving will be unbelieving.
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d10
      Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.
      It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.