cheat vs manipulate

cheat is a noun but manipulate is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No
manipulate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, manipulate is a hyponym of cheat; that is, manipulate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheat:

Other hyponyms of cheat include job, shark, rig, set up, cozen, crib, cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle.

cheat (noun)	manipulate (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

cheat (verb)	manipulate (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
deprive somebody of something by deceit	hold something in one's hands and move it
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage	manipulate in a fraudulent manner
	influence or control shrewdly or deviously
	tamper, with the purpose of deception