Manipulative vs Corruptive - What's the difference?
manipulative | corruptive |
Using manipulation purposefully.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle
, title=How to Be Manipulative
, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
, magazine=
Tending to manipulate others.
(pejorative) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 25, author=Kenneth Chang, title=Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices, work=New York Times
, passage=Some children need manipulatives to learn math basics, Dr. Clements said, but only as a starting point. }}
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Tending to corrupt.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 28, author=Dorothy Samuels, title=The George W. Bush Library: Scholarly Mecca or $500 Million Oxymoron?, work=New York Times
, passage=Following the corruptive path blazed by White House predecessors, Mr. Bush and members of his library committee apparently plan to spend the administration’s remaining days trying to coax huge contributions to the budding library complex from friends and well-heeled special interests. }}
As adjectives the difference between manipulative and corruptive
is that manipulative is using manipulation purposefully while corruptive is tending to corrupt.As a noun manipulative
is a manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.manipulative
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
Noun
(en noun) (Mathematical manipulative)citation
corruptive
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Adjective
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