Meaning of discipline | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A controlled behaviour; self-control
2. A controlled behaviour; self-control.
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3. An enforced compliance or control
4. Any particular field of knowledge or learning.
5. An enforced compliance or control.
   countable, uncountable
6. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
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7. A systematic method of obtaining obedience
8. disciplina, comportamiento estricto.
9. A state of order based on submission to authority.
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10. A state of order based on submission to authority
11. Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement: was raised in the strictest discipline.
12. A set of rules regulating behaviour.
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13. A set of rules regulating behaviour
14. Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order: military discipline.
15. A punishment to train or maintain control.
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16. Punishment intended to correct or train: subjected to harsh discipline.
17. A whip used for self-flagellation.
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18. A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.
19. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
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20. A branch of knowledge or teaching: the discipline of mathematics.
21. A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
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22. To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control: The sergeant disciplined the recruits to become soldiers. See Synonyms at teach.
23. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
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24. To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience. See Synonyms at punish.
25. To impose order on: needed to discipline their study habits.

Equivalents

Examples

“The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.”

“The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.”

“Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.”

“Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?”

“Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.”

“giving her the discipline of the strap”

“All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.”

“Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality, specialism”

“academic disciplines”

“Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.”

“This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest.”

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