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Indiscipline

Definition: Indiscipline

Indiscipline

Noun

1. The trait of lacking discipline.

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

Date "indiscipline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1910. (references)

Etymology: Indiscipline \In*dis"ci*pline\, noun. [Latin expression indisplina: compare to the French expression indiscipline. See In- not, and Discipline.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Indiscipline

Synonym: undiscipline (n). (additional references)
Antonym: discipline (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Indiscipline

English words defined with "indiscipline": dissolutenessincontinenceself-gratification. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Indiscipline" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (indiscipline).

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Commercial Usage: Indiscipline

DomainTitle

Books

  • Indiscipline and social malady : the Nigerian experience (reference)

  • Industrial indiscipline in India (reference)

  • L'Histoire, indiscipline nouvelle : se construire une mémoire critique pour devenir acteur responsable de son temps (reference)

  • Truancy and indiscipline in schools in Scotland : the pack report : report of a Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Secretary of State for Scotland (reference)

  • War against indiscipline and other poems (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Indiscipline

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Rwanda

The RPA continued to dismiss soldiers for indiscipline and criminal offenses. (references)

Political Economy

HUNGARY

Health care costs are emerging as a drain on the budget and a source of fiscal indiscipline. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Indiscipline

"Indiscipline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "Indiscipline" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)95.12%3955,036
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4.88%2245,945
                    Total100.00%41N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Indiscipline

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  indiscipline

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Indiscipline

Language Translations for "indiscipline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mosdisiplinë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عدم الخضوع لنظام, ‏اللاإنضباط. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

недисциплинираност (recalcitrance). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neukáznìnost (insubordination). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kurittomuus (want of discipline). (various references)

   

French

  

indiscipline. (various references)

   

German

  

undiszipliniertheit, mangel an disziplin, disziplinlosigkeit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απειθαρχία (insubordination). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חוסר משמעת. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fegyelmeztethetetlenség. (various references)

   

Italian

  

indisciplina. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ansmaght (slackness, victimization). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indisciplineay

   

Portuguese

  

indiscernível. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

indisciplinã (obstreperousness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недисциплинированность. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raspuštenost (licentiousness, wantonness), nedisciplina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

indisciplina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brist på disciplin. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

itaatsizlik (disobedience, noncompliance, non-compliance), disiplinsizlik. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

недисціплінованість. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự vô kỷ luật h nh động vô kỷ luật. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Indiscipline

Derivations

Words beginning with "indiscipline": indisciplined, indisciplines. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Indiscipline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biodisciplines, indisciplined, Inniskillin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Indiscipline"

Words rhyming with "indiscipline" (pronounced 'In*dis"ci*pline'): self-discipline, spline. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Indiscipline

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-i-l-n-n-p-s"

-2 letters: discipline, disincline.

-3 letters: diclinies.

-4 letters: disciple, inclined, inclines, penicils, silicide.

-5 letters: incised, incline, inclips, indices, insipid, lindens, lindies, lipides, lipidic, pencils, penicil, pinnies, piscine, spindle, splenic, splenii, spliced, splined.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-i-l-n-n-p-s"
 

+1 letter: indisciplined, indisciplines.

 

+3 letters: indisciplinable.

 

+5 letters: interdisciplinary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Indiscipline


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 64 69 73 63 69 70 6C 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101001 01110000 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#105 &#112 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0064 0069 0073 0063 0069 0070 006C 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

438070758569758278758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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