Tact vs Manipulate - What's the difference?
tact | manipulate |
The sense of touch; feeling.
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(music) The stroke in beating time.
Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
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The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people; careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense; the ability to say the right thing.
(psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
* 2013 , Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment
To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
(medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
As verbs the difference between tact and manipulate
is that tact is (psychology) to use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense) while manipulate is to move, arrange or operate something using the hands.As a noun tact
is the sense of touch; feeling.tact
Noun
(en noun)- Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
- Now, sight is a very refined tact .
- He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
- A tact' which surpassed the '''tact''' of her sex as much as the '''tact''' of her sex surpassed the ' tact of ours.
- By the use of tact , she was able to calm her jealous husband.
- I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
- Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.