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discipline
[ dis-uh-plin ]
noun
- training to act in accordance with rules; drill:
military discipline.
- an activity, exercise, or regimen that develops or improves a skill; training:
Sticking to specific and regular mealtimes is excellent discipline for many dieters.
- a branch of instruction or learning:
the disciplines of history and economics.
- punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
Synonyms: ,
- the rigor or training effect of experience, adversity, etc.:
the harsh discipline of poverty.
- behavior in accord with rules of conduct; behavior and order maintained by training and control:
good discipline in an army.
- a set or system of rules and regulations.
- Ecclesiastical. the system of government regulating the practice of a church as distinguished from its doctrine.
- an instrument of punishment, especially a whip or scourge, used in the practice of self-mortification or as an instrument of chastisement in certain religious communities.
discipline
/ ˈdɪsɪˌplɪnəl; ˈdɪsɪplɪn; ˌdɪsɪˈplaɪnəl /
noun
- training or conditions imposed for the improvement of physical powers, self-control, etc
- systematic training in obedience to regulations and authority
- the state of improved behaviour, etc, resulting from such training or conditions
- punishment or chastisement
- a system of rules for behaviour, methods of practice, etc
- a branch of learning or instruction
- the laws governing members of a Church
- a scourge of knotted cords
verb
- to improve or attempt to improve the behaviour, orderliness, etc, of by training, conditions, or rules
- to punish or correct
Derived Forms
- disciplinal, adjective
- ˈ徱ˌԱ, noun
- ˈ徱ˌԲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- 徱···Բ [dis, -, uh, -pl, uh, -nl, -plin-l, dis-, uh, -, plahyn, -l], adjective
- 徱··· noun
- ܱ·پ·徱··Ա noun
- ԴDz·徱···Բ adjective
- ··徱··Ա verb overdisciplined overdisciplining
- ·徱··Ա noun verb (used with object) predisciplined predisciplining
- ·徱··Ա verb (used with object) redisciplined redisciplining
- ܲ·徱··Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of discipline1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of discipline1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
What surprised his team-mates was the level of discipline he already presented at that age.
Victims said staffers were seldom disciplined for preying on vulnerable kids.
Platforms like Bugcrowd bring more discipline to the bug-hunting process, allowing companies to set the "scope" of what systems they want hackers to target.
The vast growth in debt and debt-financed takeovers had a pretty clear purpose, which was to discipline the managerial class and to remind them that they had to work for the investor class.
Running is Yee's strongest discipline and he has competed for Great Britain on the track and in cross-country, while his 5km best of 13:26 is the third-fastest ever by a British man.
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