Manipulative vs Immature - What's the difference?
manipulative | immature |
Using manipulation purposefully.
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, title=How to Be Manipulative
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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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Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
Silly or childish in behavior, not mature.
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As adjectives the difference between manipulative and immature
is that manipulative is using manipulation purposefully while immature is not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.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
immature
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Adjective
(en adjective)- You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
