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Discipline   /dˈɪsəplən/   Listen
Discipline

noun
1.
A branch of knowledge.  Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field.  "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.  "For such a plan to work requires discipline"
3.
The trait of being well behaved.
4.
Training to improve strength or self-control.
5.
The act of punishing.  Synonym: correction.
verb
(past & past part. disciplined; pres. part. disciplining)
1.
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.  Synonyms: check, condition, train.  "Is this dog trained?"
2.
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.  Synonyms: correct, sort out.



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"Discipline" Quotes from Famous Books



... adds, showing obverse as well as reverse of the world's problem of employment and discipline, "we can see at once if a woman is not ...
— War and the Future • H. G. Wells

... You will gratify us by describing the manner of their making War, of the mode of subsisting themselves during a state of war, and a state of peace, their Arms, and the effect of them, whether they act on foot or on horse back, detailing the discipline, and manuvers of the war parties, the power of their horses, size and general discription; in short any information which you may conceive would be useful to the Government. You will avail yourself of every opportunity of informing us of your position and progress, and at the expiration of ...
— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

... later meeting the Rev. Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, then president of the university, by request addressed the association and declared his views, saying in substance that he was not in favor of their admission, especially in the undergraduate departments, as the discipline required by young men and women was quite different and all social questions would be complicated by ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... in the dust, mechanically rise up to gaze; forgetting their discipline, squares of soldiers change into confused companies of inattentive men; simultaneous confusion takes place in straight lines of marching troops, and the music of the bands degenerates into inharmonious toots and discordant squeaks, from the inattention of the ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... and high-spirited boy; a little given to mischief, as all boys are, but quite amenable to discipline. My assistant speaks most highly of his progress this term, and of his general intelligence. He seems well suited by our system. His conduct is, on the whole, admirable. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 24, 1891 • Various


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