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discipline English

Meaning discipline meaning

What does discipline mean?
Definitions in simple English

discipline Noun

— A disciplined attitude is a controlled behaviour; self-control. — Discipline is a method to force people to obey someone (or a group of people like a government). — # Discipline is a method of getting obedience using a systematic method. — # Discipline is a state of order based on submission to authority — # Discipline is a punishment used to train someone or to continue control. — # Discipline is a set of rules explaining how to behave. — # Discipline is a beating received to get sexual pleasure. — Discipline is an academic subject-matter. It is a specific part of knowledge or learning.

discipline Verb

— If someone is disciplined, they are train a person by using instruction and practice. — If a person disciplines someone, they teach a person to obey authority. — If someone is disciplined, they are punished or gotten control of (or to get control back). — To impose order on a person.

discipline

— verb (= train) develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control Parents must discipline their children Is this dog trained? — noun (= subject, study) 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 — noun a system of rules of conduct or method of practice he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine for such a plan to work requires discipline — noun the trait of being well behaved he insisted on discipline among the troops — noun training to improve strength or self-control — noun the act of punishing the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received — verb punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently

Synonyms discipline synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as discipline?

discipline English » English

punish train training punishment chastise correct order reprimand chasten principle penalty penalize correction control condition instruct drill commandment subject rule regulation field check castigate thrash temper sentence self-control rules restraint regulations rebuke orderliness educate bring up train up teach someone a lesson tame subject field subject area subdue study sort out self-restraint scourge scold school rule of conduct restrain regulate

Topics discipline topics

What do people use discipline to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled
Person Life Stage of life Child

Rear a child
Language and thought Think

Learn
Language and thought Teach

Subject of teaching
Language and thought Teach

Correct
Social behavior Behavior

Change behavior
Social behavior Authority Exercise authority

Discipline, train
Social behavior Law

Punish
Social behavior Conflict

War

Conjugation discipline conjugation

How do you conjugate discipline?

discipline · verb

Examples discipline examples

How do I use discipline in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom got fired from his work for serious breach of discipline.
The child was completely lacking in discipline.
Learning poetry is a good discipline for the memory.
Tom lacks discipline.
Military discipline is literally rigid.
He needs discipline.
Faith, unity, discipline.
Discipline is the most important component of success.
Discipline is the most important part of success.

Movie subtitles

If Ray Wyatt doesn't want to discipline those boys, then I will.
He has no discipline.
Through discipline and hunger, hunger and discipline we shall be great again.
I have been imported from Switzerland by the management of this hotel to enforce discipline and I will.
Bad for discipline.
You are mistaken. From now on there's going to be discipline on this ship.
However, the cure for our predicament is discipline.
Without discipline there is no father.
No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed!
His attempt to resist the normal, healthy discipline of being put into Coventry. brought no further discipline from us.
Discipline, Mr. Chipping.
You'll need discipline from your men.
Be harsher with your discipline. Make it clear to him that he's in Almoloya.
Discipline is the one thing that must be observed.
The only discipline I know is science.
Discipline's the thing.
Time you learn discipline!
Maintain discipline, not break it!
He doesn't punish for discipline.
I'll have no drunken relic holding up the discipline aboard my ship.
One day I'll forget this discipline and break his neck.
Discipline has been maintained.
Through discipline and hunger, hunger and discipline we shall be great again. Or not at all!
But some are not measuring up to the necessary standards of discipline that I insist upon.
I'm all washed up, a loser. Discipline?
Madame believes in rigid discipline.
You treat us like a lot of slaves and call it discipline.
That's discipline.
It's the discipline.
This country's in need of law and discipline.
We've got to work together and have discipline.
Now we come to the subject of discipline.
As touching the direction of the military discipline; that is the point.
I'm sorry, I discipline others. i can't discipline myself.

News and current affairs

At home, Sarkozy has aimed his message particularly at the young, issuing a patriotic call to the values of work and discipline, a counter-revolutionary revolution.
In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her emphasis on discipline and family.
Robert Rubin and Kent Conrad warned him that the press would not interpret his testimony as being balanced, and that Congress would interpret it as an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline.
First, they required fiscal discipline in the member states, which was true under the gold standard, with its informal norm of balanced budgets.
Until then, he and Bush shared a common worldview, emphasizing the importance of religion, the traditional family (as both countries understood it), social discipline, and the state's role in supporting these institutions.
Each discipline has its own language and its own separate machinery.
Europe's relatively newfound fiscal discipline probably was a blessing in maintaining market confidence, and thus in immunizing the Continent, during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial panics.
The most interesting explanation I heard was that economics has become more interesting, because it no longer seems to be a finished and closed discipline.
Worse than that, at least until recently, a committee evaluating an economist would likely think that writing a popular economics book that does not repeat the received wisdom of the discipline might even be professionally unethical.
They are trying to cook up ways to discipline financial firms, albeit without conspicuous success so far, as demonstrated by the large sums stashed away for employee compensation by Goldman Sachs after its most recent profitable quarter.
The authorities recognize the need for strict fiscal discipline and financial regulation.
There is, of course, a balance to be struck between tight institutional discipline and letting a hundred intellectual flowers bloom.
If countries could maintain discipline and limit spending by their households, firms, or governments, foreign capital would not be needed, and could be re-exported easily, without much effect on the recipient economy.
Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.
Integrated by the leader's charisma and party discipline, party members will direct and unify the desolated country.
In a post-Arafat situation, it will be much harder for any successor or successors to impose discipline and hierarchy on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the PA, or Fatah.
The first calls for the world to deem as utterly unacceptable state violence that seeks to impose conformity and discipline.
Using climate policy to discipline these industries would help rebalance the economy while taking a bite out of China's emissions.
Regional political realities, transnational interaction, and the common search for a better future should, eventually, prevail over policies geared for repression, discipline, and order.
Managers' increased focus on maximizing shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980's: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative.
Still, there is an upside here. Europe's relatively newfound fiscal discipline probably was a blessing in maintaining market confidence, and thus in immunizing the Continent, during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial panics.
What is needed, though, is a collective agreement on fiscal discipline, and a revival of the Stability and Growth Pact, which was unwisely abandoned - ironically when the French and Germans found its rules too constraining.
This suggests that the US should seek out an overarching strategy to discipline its impulses to fight wars of choice or engage in nation-building efforts.

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