Discipline

Definition: Discipline

Discipline

Noun

1. A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings".

2. A system of rules of conduct or method of practice; "he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine" or "for such a plan to work requires discipline".

3. The trait of being well behaved; "he insisted on discipline among the troops".

4. Training to improve strength or self-control.

5. The act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received".

Verb

1. Train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?".

2. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "discipline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Literature

Math

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Synonyms: Discipline

Order

Subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness; Adjective:

Punishment

Discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital; (reward); penology; retributive justice.

Restraint

Noun: restraint; hindrance; coercion; (compulsion); cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression; discipline, control.

Teaching

Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate).

Qualification, preparation; training, schooling; Verb: discipline; excitation.

Worship

Discipline; self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial; fasting.

Crosswords: Discipline

Dutch (discipline), French (discipline, orderliness).

You need structure and discipline. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

I use discipline and drive to make my life possible (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

The first rule of this household is discipline. (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

Through discipline (Leader Of The Band; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

And you need some discipline (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt)

Love, knowledge, discipline too (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith)

Chateau of Discipline (1973)

Maintaining Classroom Discipline (1947)

Flo's Discipline (1912)

Military Discipline (1898)

Dark Discipline (1994)

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Books

• The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (reference)

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Periodicals

• Journal Of Medical Licensure And Discipline (reference)

• National Survey Salary Survey By Discipline And Rank In Four (reference)

• School Discipline Advisor (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• PetrucciI/Rock Discipline (reference)

• The Lords of Discipline (reference)

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Music

• Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Patrick is making discipline impossible. Credit: Library of Congress.

Backbone of the American Army is the old sergeant. He knows men, army life, discipline, fighting -- everything needed for his job of turning raw recruits into finished soldiers. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Master and servant are names as old as history, but given to those of far different condition; for a freeman makes himself a servant to another, by selling him, for a certain time, the service he undertakes to do, in exchange for wages he is to receive: and though this commonly puts him into the family of his master, and under the ordinary discipline thereof; yet it gives the master but a temporary power over him, and no greater than what is contained in the contract between them. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference)

Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting disposal or undergoing sentence for offences other than those against discipline may be detained. (reference)

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1955)

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She depended on the evil feelings of the Eltons for supplying all the discipline of pointed neglect that could be farther requisite

The discipline of the family, in those days, was of a far more rigid kind than now.

The detestable maxim, (r)Live on your enemy , produced this leper, which rigid discipline alone can cure

Each of his senses was brought under a rigorous discipline.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert

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Health

They may find it difficult to discipline the child with cancer because of the uncertainty of the future. (references)

Treatment should include structured classroom management, parent education (to address discipline and limit-setting), and tutoring and/or behavioral therapy for the child. (references)

Although it is true that for many of these young people the future is uncertain, and some will die, discipline is an important part of seeing that the quality of life is maintained. (references)

Business

Price discipline and channel support from foreign suppliers may be one way to overcome this problem. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Another approach to the problem of street children is the National Program for Discipline and Clean Cities Decree. (references)

South Africa

Although corporal punishment in schools is prohibited by law, there are reports that teachers use physical violence to discipline their students. (references)

Japan

The law also bans abuse under the guise of discipline and obliges teachers, doctors, and welfare officials to report any suspicious circumstances to the 174 local child counseling centers located nationwide or to municipal welfare centers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

Conditions in these camps are harsh; food is scarce; and discipline is severe. (references)

Brazil

The short periods for rulings and non-appeal provisions of the regulations are designed to enforce discipline and ensure that remedies are applied in a timely manner. (references)

China

Since the Government banned the FLG in 1999, the mere belief in the discipline (and since January, even without any public manifestation of its tenets) has been sufficient grounds for practitioners to receive punishments ranging from loss of employment to imprisonment. (references)

Economic History

Kuwait

Payment discipline was lax and real economic losses common. (references)

Ecuador

Dollarization has imposed a fiscal discipline not previously in evidence in Ecuador. (references)

South Africa

It brought greater financial discipline and stability but has failed to deliver in key areas. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

The Discipline Unit investigated 503 cases of wrongdoing during the year. (references)

Croatia

It is charged with the appointment and discipline, including removal, of judges. (references)

Russia

Almost all complainants alleged violations of military discipline and other common crimes. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

There is widespread police corruption and lack of discipline. (references)

EGYPT

Since 1991, Egypt has followed a course of macroeconomic stabilization and discipline. (references)

Zambia

The lack of professionalism, investigatory skill, and discipline in the police force remained serious problems. (references)

Trade

Eq. Guinea

The COBAC has authority to license banks and discipline delinquent institutions. (references)

Zimbabwe

It is somewhat independent of government in exercising monetary controls and advising government on fighting inflation, including on occasion criticizing, for example, the GOZ's lack of fiscal discipline. (references)

Ukraine

Focusing on (i) financial discipline, (ii) improving the regulatory framework, (iii) transparent definition and protection of property rights, (iv) public sector accountability, and (v) social sustainability. (references)

Travel

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstani businessmen are generally less direct than American businessmen, and what can be accomplished in a few meetings in the U.S. might take more in Kazakhstan, requiring patience and discipline on the part of the U.S. businessmen. (references)

Women

Kenya

Traditional culture permits a man to discipline his wife by physical means and is ambivalent about the seriousness of spousal rape. (references)

Worker Rights

Mauritius

Certain breaches of discipline by seamen are punishable by imprisonment. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Discipline

Expressions using "discipline": breach of discipline ♦ concerted discipline ♦ discipline of concealment ♦ Employee Discipline ♦ humanistic discipline ♦ iron discipline ♦ lack of discipline ♦ lapse in discipline ♦ military discipline ♦ party discipline ♦ scientific discipline. Additional references.

Beginning with "discipline": discipline-based, discipline-bound, discipline-hence, discipline-independent, discipline-orientated, discipline-oriented, discipline-specific.

Ending with "discipline": multi-discipline, sub-discipline.

Containing "discipline": bondage-and-discipline language, sub-discipline-based.

Afrikaans

dissipline. (various references)

Albanian

disiplinoj (school), disiplinë, degë (agency, arm, bough, branch, brushwood, department, embranchment, fork, knag, limb, offshoot, outgrowth, perch, prong, rame, ramification, specialism, stick), dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, criminate, damn, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence, trounce), dënim (adjudication, castigation, censure, condemnation, conviction, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, dispraise, doom, judgement, judgment, mulct, penalty, proscription, punishment, rap, recompense, sentence, strafe, what for), ushtroj (drill, ply, practise, profess, pursue, train), ushtrim (drill, exercise, practice, training), stërvitje (coaching, dressage, drill, drilling, exercise, practice, training, workout), stërvit (break in, coach, drill, educate, exercise, practise, train), rregull (cleanliness, cosmos, institution, law, method, neatness, nomocracy, order, orderliness, precept, procedure, regularity, regulation, right, rights, rule, shape, tidiness), ndëshkoj (amerce, castigate, chastise, condemn, correct, dish it out, give in, penalize, punish), ndëshkim (amercement, castigation, chastisement, comeuppance, correction, hell, infliction, pain, penalty, penitence, plague, punishment, strafe, what for), kamzhik (flagellum, horsewhip, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok, switch, whip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرع من المعرفة, ‏نظام (arrangement, array, bylaw, cosmos, framework, limitation, measure, method, order, orderliness, organism, organization, prescript, rank, regulation, setup, shape, system), ‏قواعد السلوك (ceremony), ‏تهذيب (breeding, cultivation, culture, edification, expurgation, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, purgation, refinement, reformation, retouch, revision, sublimation, urbanity), ‏تأديب (correction), ‏تدريب (coaching, drilling, exercise, practice, schooling, traineeship, training), ‏عاقب (administer, blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, suffer, trounce), ‏ضبط النفس (possession, self control, temperance), ‏إنضباط (precision, propriety, punctuality), ‏أدب (chasten, correct, educate, good manners, letters, literature, propriety, school, seemliness, urbanity), ‏درب (coach, drill, exercise, groom, path, pathway, school, train). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ред (arrangement, cast, course, inning, kilter, method, order, orderliness, placement, rank, row, run, sequence, series, set, shape, taxis, tier, train, turn, variety), школа (academy, school), възпитавам (breed, bring up, cradle, educate, train), отрасъл на науката, обучавам (drill, form, ground, instruct, lesson, pace, school, take, teach, train, tutor, verse), наказвам (amerce, castigate, chasten, correct, pay out, penalize, punish, smite, sort out), наказание (amercement, award, castigation, gruel, infliction, judgement, judgment, pain, pay, payment, penalty, plague, punishment, rap, requital, retribution), бичуване на плътта, бичувам (castigate, flagellate, lash, scourge, welt), дресирам (break in, tame, train), дисциплина (order, orderliness, subject), дисциплинирам. (various references)

Chinese 

規律 , 紀律 , 紀 (age, era, order, period, record), 懲 (punish), 学科 (interdisciplinary). (various references)

Czech

disciplinovat, disciplína (subject), ukáznit, potrestat (penalize, punish, smite), obor (department, field, line, province, specialization, sphere, subject), kázeò. (various references)

Danish

disciplin. (various references)

Dutch

discipline, tucht. (various references)

Esperanto

disciplino. (various references)

Faeroese

agi. (various references)

Farsi 

نظم (Array, Collocation, Meter, Order, Poem, Poetry, Rank, Rhyme, System, Train, Verse), تحت نظم وترتیب دراوردن , تادیب کردن (Correct), تادیب (Correction), ترتیب (Collocation, Configuration, Layout, Management, Ordonnance, Rank, Regularity, Run, Scheme, Sequence, Setup, Train), انتظام (Order), انضباط. (various references)

Finnish

kuri. (various references)

French

discipline. (various references)

German

Disziplin (order), disziplinieren (to discipline). (various references)

Greek 

πειθαρχώ (obey, toe the line), πειθαρχία. (various references)

Hebrew 

משמעת (hearing, obedience), מרות (authority, mastery, obedience, rule), למשמע, לחנך למשמעת, דיסציפלינה, ציות (obedience). (various references)

Hungarian

fegyelem (obedience), tudományág (branch of learning, study), fegyelmezés. (various references)

Indonesian

disiplin, tata tertib (regulations (for conduct)), kedisiplinan (training), gemblengan (training). (various references)

Italian

disciplina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

謹慎 (house arrest, penitence), 懲罰 (punishment, reprimand), 懲戒 (punishment, reprimand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しつけ (basting, breeding, home discipline, rice planting, tacking, training, upbringing), きりつ (law, order, regulations, rules, standing up), しめし (revelation), しゅぎょう (ascetic practice, learning, pursuit of knowledge, studying, training), しゅうぎょう (ascetic practice, employment, end of school, end of work, learning, pursuit of knowledge, shameful occupation, starting work, studying, training), しゅうれん (astringency, contraction, convergence, culture, drill, extraction, heavy taxation, practice, training), きんしん (attendant, house arrest, near relative, penitence, vassal), くんいく (moral education, moral influence), くんとう (education, the Order of Merit, training), こうき (aroused energy, ascendency, bad breath, brightness, broad gauge, chance, conceited, easygoing, final, fragrance, good opportunity, high class, high-spirited action, ideal time, Imperial era, inquisitiveness, intimation, latter period, law and order, optimistic, postscript, public institution, Red Flag, rise, scale, school discipline, school flag, school regulations, splendour), ちょうばつ (punishment, reprimand), ちょうかい (deliquescence, listening comprehension, morning assembly, punishment, reprimand, town council). (various references)

Korean 

분야 (field, Fields, sector). (various references)

Manx

smaghtey (castigate, chasten, chastening, check, checking, control, curb, manage, master, repression, suppress), smaghtaghey (afflict, castigation, chasten, chastening, chastisement, check, control, correct, correct as child, govern, master, mortify, overmaster, restrain, subject, taming), smaght (castigation, chastisement, command, control, correction, empire, good order, restraint, restriction, subjection), cur fo smaght (bring under, repress, subject), biallys (docility, obedience, submission). (various references)

Norwegian

disiplinere, disiplin. (various references)

Papiamen

displina. (various references)

Pig Latin

isciplineday.(various references)

Portuguese

disciplina. (various references)

Romanian

disciplinã riguroasã, disciplinã, disciplina (form), pedepsi (amerce, avenge, castigate, chasten, correct, penalize, punish, scourge, serve out, trounce, wreak), pedeapsã (calamity, castigation, chastisement, cuss, imposition, lag, pain, payment, pedate, penalty, penance, performance, plague, punishment, retribution, rod, sanction, trouble), ordine (array, command, disposal, disposition, method, order, orderliness, peace, range, regime, regulation, right, sequence, succession, system, tidiness, trim). (various references)

Russian 

тренировать (exercise, train, train up), обучать (educate, ground, instruct, profess, qualify, school, teach), наказывать (amerce, castigate, chastise, correct, drop across, oppugn, penalize, punish, punishing, trounce), наказание (amercement, castigation, chastisement, infliction, judgement, judgment, mulct, penalization, penalty, punishment, rap, strafe, toco, what-for), епитимья (penance), палка (cane, stick), дисциплина, дисциплинировать дисциплина, дисциплинировать, дисциплинированность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

disciplinski kazniti, disciplinovati (regiment, school), disciplina, režim (order, regime). (various references)

Spanish

disciplina (orderliness). (various references)

Swedish

disciplin (order), tukt. (various references)

Turkish

disipline sokmak, disiplin sağlamak, disiplin (disciplinary), denetim (audit, check, control, governance, review, superintendence, test), yola getirmek (chasten, reclaim, sit, sit on), yetiştirmek (breed, bring up, coach, cradle, cultivate, educate, farm, groom, grow, nurture, produce, raise, rear, rush, school, train, turn out), terbiye etmek (break in, bring up, chasten, edify, educate, housebreak, manage, nurture, polish, rough, school, teach manners, train), sıkı disiplin (iron discipline, strictness), sıkı düzen, otorite (arm, authority, control, domination, power), cezalandırmak (castigate, chastise, cop it, correct, crime, dish out, give smb. gyp, penalize, plague, punish, sconce, scourge, slate, smirk), bilim dalı (art, field), baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, crush, duress, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, restraint, screw, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic, urgency). (various references)

Turkmen 

dьzgьn-tertip (order), dьzgьn-nyzam (order), tertibe зagyrmak (call order). (various references)

Ukrainian

справа (act, affair, biz, brief, business, case, cause, deed, employ, enterprise, nevermind, point, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction), карати (berate, chasten, chastise, correct, penalize, punish, strafe), навчати (breed, nurture, qualify, re educate, teach, tutor), навчання (apprenticeship, education, instruction, nurture, re-education, school, study, teaching, tuition), дисциплінувати (school), дисциплінованість, дисципліна (subject). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kỷ luật sự rèn luyện trí óc nhục hình. (various references)

Welsh

disgyblu, disgyblaeth, gwastrodaeth (groom). (various references)

disciplina, disciplinae, disciplinam, exercitatio, modestia, modestiae, modestiam, obsequi, obsequiis, obsequio, obsequium. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "discipline": disciplined, discipliner, discipliners, disciplines. (additional references)

Words ending with "discipline": indiscipline, multidiscipline, subdiscipline. (additional references)

Words containing "discipline": indisciplined, indisciplines, multidisciplines, subdisciplines, undisciplined. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Discipline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: descipline, dicipline, disapline, discapline, discipiline, discipine, disciplen, disciplene, Disciplin, disciplina, disciplinae, disciplne, disclipine, discpipline, disicipline, disicpline, disipline, dissipline. (additional references)